Narrow miss over Bangalore skies

As part of TIMES NOW's special series on Air Safety where we have been tracking several cases of near collisions and accidents in Indian skies, about 150 passengers on board a Mumbai-Bangalore Kingfisher flight had a narrow escape at Bangalore airport on Saturday (November 3), when the descending aborted landing and pulled back up into the skies after the pilot spotted another plane on the runway.
The incident seems to be an eerie replay of the October 19 near-miss when a pilot coming into Mumbai saw a craft on the same runway on which he was to land.
After hovering for ten minutes, the pilot informed the badly-shaken passengers the reason for the plan suddenly taking off again.
The passengers landed safely 20 minutes later.
Augustine Raj, a passenger travelling on that plane, spoke to TIMES NOW saying the incident trigerred panic among all the passengers on the flight.
07/11/07 Times Now.tv

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Categories: Airports Nov 2007, Kingfisher Nov 2007, Safety Nov 2007