False hijack alarm on Kingfisher flight

Mumbai: Pilots of a Mumbai-bound Kingfisher flight from Hong Kong accidentally set off a hijack alarm while approaching the Mumbai airport on Tuesday evening. Sources said the aircraft was 10 miles from the airport when the alarm went off and the reason was a failure of the aircraft’s radiotelephony system.
However, according to a spokesperson for Kingfisher Airlines, the false alarm went off after the aircraft had landed at the airport. Also the cockpit crew of Kingfisher’s flight IT 072 later clarified to Air Traffic Control (ATC) that the hijack alarm was false, triggered accidentally while switching frequencies for communication with ATC.
02/12/09 Indian Express

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Categories: Airports Dec 2009, Kingfisher Dec 2009, Safety Dec 2009