AAI team arrives to inspect Patna airport

Patna: A two-member Airports Authority of India (AAI) team reached Patna on Monday for inspection of the approach funnel of the city's Jayprakash Narayan International Airport. The team has come here to survey the Patna airport following a Directorate General of Civil Aviation report (DGCA) dubbing Patna airport as the riskiest in the country with a much less runway for safe landing and take off.
Airport sources said the team consisting C K Sharma and Dipak Kumar from AAI's cartography section inspected the runway strip knowing on first-hand the exact nature of obstacles preventing the use of the full length of the runway.
Both the members also made a survey of the airport, including the outer walls of the Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park, said sources.
It is to be noted that Patna airport is flanked by the botanical garden on its eastern side with tall trees on the approach side of the runway and a railway track on western side making it incapable of handling big aircrafts. The length of the runway in Patna airport is 2,286 metres out of which 1,820 is available for landing from eastern side and 1,677 metres from western side. Big aircrafts such as Boeing 747s and A 320s requires 2,286 metres for safe landing.
24/08/10 Nishant Sinha/Times of India

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