Pilot quick to avert disaster

Kolkata: An alert pilot of Air India's Haj flight today helped avert a possible disaster at NSC Bose Airport this morning.
The Boeing-747 flight carrying 449 haj pilgrims from Jeddah was about to land in three minutes when the pilot noticed another aircraft on the same runway and contacted the Air Traffic Control (ATC) officers alerting them to it. There was poor visibility and planes were landing under CAT-II ILS conditions. The ATC officers immediately contacted the pilot of the Alliance Air's cargo flight that was on the runway. The cargo flight, IC-7901 was carrying mails to Guwahati.
The ATCOs immediately asked the Air India's pilot to go around it, which he did. Then the pilot of AA's flight, who entered the runway through Alfa Taxi Track, was asked to vacate the runway. He was asked to take off. The run way was vacated. The Air India flight landed safely after 20 minutes. The matter is being probed by safety officials of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
31/12/08 The Statesman

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