Major air mishap averted at Mumbai

Mumbai: Barely five days after an airliner crash at Mangalore claimed 158 lives, a major air disaster was averted Wednesday evening when an IndiGo flight taxied into the runway here where a Jet Airways aircraft was about to land, officials said.
Flight 9W616 of Jet had been cleared for landing, but the pilot aborted the operation after the air traffic control found that flight 6E415 of IndiGo was on the same runway, waiting for take-off, an official at the airport here said.
The incident happened at around 21.04 hrs, usually a busy peak time at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. The IndiGo flight was bound for Bangalore, while the Jet flight was coming in from Kolkata.
"Instead of going on to taxiway "N", as per the designated instructions from the air traffic control, the Indigo aircraft had entered the main runway where the Jet flight was cleared to land," an official explained.
"Apparently, there was some confusion as some taxiway lights were faulty."
27/05/10 IANS/Economic Times

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