AI flight lands sans vital landing equipment

Aizwal: An Air India Kolkata-Aizawl flight landed at the Lengpui Airport, which has one of the three table-top runways in the country, without a vital landing equipment. IC-211 was carrying 145 passengers.
“It landed here when the Very High Frequency Omni-Directional Range (VOR) equipment was out of order,” said U K Ghosh, senior manager of Airports Authority of India said. The landing comes barely a few weeks after the Mangalore air crash claimed 158 lives.
“Though the weather was good, the landing took place in the absence of the VOR instrument, which was out of order,” Ghosh said.
Ghosh said the VOR and the one on standby suddenly did not work on Sunday and the Kolkata-Aizawl flight was diverted to Imphal as the pilot could not land with visual and manual aid. The same flight again came from Imphal and landed here.
07/06/10 PTI/Times of India

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