Way to go before airport gets surface movement radar

Mumbai: The wait for a surface movement radar at Mumbai airport, where a Boeing hit a stationary Airbus yesterday, has got longer with the Airports Authority of India missing the late-October deadline for commissioning the project. The radar will allow Air Traffic Control to track any ground movement.
AAI officials in New Delhi said the radar may now be installed by mid-November but Mumbai airport officials admitted even this deadline looks ambitious.
On Saturday, a Jet Airways’ Boeing 737 with 122 passengers on board hit a stationary Kingfisher Airlines’ Airbus 320 while it was being pushed back into the taxiway for takeoff. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) suspended a staff-member of Jet Airways and de-rostered two ground staff.
25/10/10 Ranjani Raghavan/Indian Express

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Categories: airports Oct 2010