At existing airport, 4 ‘hotspots for incidents’

Mumbai: The Airports Authority of India has declared four “hotspots” at the Mumbai airport effective from Thursday.
Hotspots are “incident-prone” zones as identified by the authorities. An AAI circular identifies the intersection between the runways (09/27 and 14/32), a point where a taxiway meets the secondary runway, the intersection between taxiways N 8 and N, and taxiway Q that is the holding point for runway 27 before a flight takes off.
In Mumbai, hotspots have been routinely identified by the airport safety team and communicated to all stakeholders to reduce the chances of an an accident on the premises. The new list was declared for re-carpeting work on the main runway (09/27) from Thursday. This is the first phase of the work to give Mumbai airport a re-carpeted runway by 2011-end.
24/09/10 Indian Express

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Categories: airports Sep 2010, Safety Sep 2010