Nagpur: Is a major mishap waiting to happen at the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport? As the old menace of animals straying on to the runway has returned, this is the question on everyone's lips.
Recent incidents are an indicator of the recurring problem. Two wild boars were crushed under the wheels of Air India Mumbai-Nagpur-Mumbai flight with almost 145 passengers on-board on Wednesday night. A barking deer was hit by a JetLite Nagpur-Mumbai flight with almost 100 passengers on board on May 15. And a stray dog was seen roaming freely during a recent flight operation.
Sources said two years after airport officials claimed to have caught and relocated all wild animals, two barking deer, a group of wild boars, pigs and stray dogs have been spotted roaming near the operational area recently. The eight high-tech 'zon guns' (an LPG cylinder-operated device with a rotating barrel which booms roughly every 30-40 seconds to scare the animals away) are not functioning properly due to lack of maintenance, they said.
Abadesh Prasad, chief operating officer of Mihan India Private Limited which runs the airport, confirmed that wild animals, especially two barking deer and wild boars, are still roaming in the airport area.
23/06/11 Sachin Dravekar/Times of India
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