Air scare: 10 hits, two misses every month

New Delhi: Indian skies are fast becoming among the most dangerous in the world. Ten bird hits and at least two air misses are being reported every month.
Airports handle around 60,000 flights every month — so one in 5,000 flights faces one of the two dangers.
In 2007, 18 air misses were reported by September-end. This figure would go up in the coming two winter months, officials say.
And the busiest eight airports together reported 89 bird hits during the same period. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation recently presented a report on the situation to the civil aviation top brass.
The DGCA officials claim that every air miss or near miss is taken very seriously.
In each case of an air miss, experts question the pilots and the air traffic controllers separately and also extensively analyse the transcripts of the conversations between the ATC and the pilot.
05/11/07 Yogesh Kumar/Daily News & Analysis

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