Mumbai runway will soon get taxiway lights

Mumbai: After a series of runway incursions and power failure on the runway and taxiway lights, Mumbai International Airport (MIAL) has finally agreed to install taxiway lights on the secondary runway (14-32).
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) recommended that MIAL install these lights after an incursion by an Indigo flight almost a month ago. The flight had come into a collision path with an approaching Jet Airways flight. The collision was averted after the Jet Airways pilot did a go-around instead of landing.
An MIAL spokesperson said that the taxiway lights will be installed by next month. “We have agreed in principle to install the lights. The work is likely to be completed by next month,’’ the spokesperson said. The secondary runway at Mumbai airport is also, at times, used as a taxi path for flights going towards the main runway. However, while the nature of operations was being changed, the runway only had yellow runway lights signaling active flight operations.
25/06/10 Chinmayi Shalya/Times of India

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Categories: Airports Jun 2010