Landing scare at IGI airport

New Delhi: Passengers of an Air India flight from Patna to Delhi were expecting to touch down at the IGI Airport seconds later when their aircraft that was descending steadily suddenly climbed again in the air on Sunday night. A Singapore Airlines aircraft that had landed a short while before the IC416's arrival had been unable to clear the runway, forcing the other flight to abort landing at the last minute and take a go-around.
With 18 cases of go-arounds recorded at the IGI Airport in January due to the runway not vacated on time, the ministry of civil aviation has taken a strict view of the situation. A ministry source said: "At present there is no regulation to specify how long an aircraft should take to vacate the active runway, but it should ideally be about 30-35 seconds. We will give pilots 15 days' time to fall in line, and in the meantime, we will collect data on defaulters. If in that time there is no change, the ministry will be forced to take strict action."
The incident took place around 9.40pm when IC 416 with about 130 passengers on board was preparing to land on the new runway 29/11. The Singapore Airlines flight SQ408 from Singapore had landed before its scheduled time of 10.10pm but had not been able to clear the runway.
22/02/11 Neha Lalchandani/Times of India

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Categories: Airports Feb 2011