Friday 13th: Vasco’s day of accidents Airport building gutted

Vasco: A major fire broke out in the terminal building at Dabolim airport on Friday morning, causing heavy loss of property.
The fire broke out at about 8.30 am in the first floor building of the Go-Air Airlines administrative office and quickly spread to the administrative offices of Spice Jet, Indigo Airlines and the empty passenger lounge of Sahara Airlines, which were located in a row.
The Go-Air and Indigo offices were destroyed, while the Spice Jet and the passengers lounge sustained minor damages.
“To our luck, no operations — take off and landing of civilian flights — were in progress at the time of the fire mishap and staff at the airport was considerably less,” said Navy PRO Com Kesari.
Fire brigades from the Navy, Goa Shipyard, Zuari Industrial Ltd, MPT and Goa State Fire Service were pressed into service to quell the flames.
Three crash fire tenders, normally deployed for an aircraft in distress, were rushed to the scene at the civil airport apron to put the fire off.
14/07/07 Herald Publications

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Categories: Airports Jul 2007, Safety Jul 2007