Yet another aborted landing at Delhi airport

New Delhi: In what is becoming a routine occurrence at the Delhi airport, another aircraft had to abort landing at the last moment on Friday because an aircraft was present on the runway. The incident, involving an international flight, happened around 3.40pm when the aircraft was descending to land. The 200-odd passengers on board had a close shave as the pilot was told by the air traffic control to abort landing and make a ‘go around’ as another aircraft, a domestic budget carrier, was present on the runway.
This is the fourth such incident in the past 15 days.
“The aircraft of the budget carrier had landed sometime before but had failed to vacate the runway,” said an airport source. “As a result the international flight was asked to abort landing and make a go around. The flight finally landed 45 minutes later,” he said.
04/06/11 Hindustan Times

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Categories: Airports Jun 2011