Navy disallows landing to tardy flight at Dabolim

Panaji: Naval authorities denied a Kingfisher Airlines flight landing permission at the Dabolim airport on Thursday morning as it failed to arrive on time.
Due to this, the pilot of the KF 4611 ATR aircraft hovered in the sky for about 10 minutes and then flew back to the Bangalore airport without landing.
The flight, with about 51 passengers and crew on board, was scheduled to land at Dabolim airport at 7.45am on Thursday and was to take off from the airport at 8.15am with about 58 passengers. However, when at around 8.45am the pilot asked the Dabolim airport for landing permission, the Navy ATC refused it. The pilot was then left with no choice but to fly the aircraft back to Bangalore with all the passengers onboard. "The flight was scheduled to leave from Bangalore airport at 6.15 am. But there was an unusual phenomenon of fog in the Garden City due to which departure was delayed. The flight departed from the terminal at 7am, but it had to wait at the runway for another 44 minutes due to heavy traffic. By the time, the flight arrived at Goa it was 8.45am.
While the Goa airport generally closes at 9am, it closed early on Thursday, and we were denied landing," said the carrier's official spokesperson, Prakash Mirpuri. However, a Naval spokesperson in Goa said that no scheduled flights are permitted at the airport from 8.30am to 1pm.
01/10/10 Times of India

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