Kanpur: Landing mishaps are not new at Chakeri airport. The 48-seater Air India regional flight had hit 'blue bull' (neel gai) while landing at the Chakeri airport in Kanpur on February 28, 2008.
The 47 passengers onboard and four crew members, however, had escaped unhurt. The Delhi-Kanpur-Allahabad flight, CD 7801, had just landed at Kanpur when the incident took place.
It might be noted here that the pilot had applied the emergency brake after he had noticed the blue bull on the runway, but the aircraft still hit the animal, killing it on the spot.
"Soon after the incident, the then district magistrate had convened a meeting of airport authorities to check the menace of blue bulls but nothing has changed," said an airport official.
And in December last year, a herd of blue bulls had damaged a cable of the instrument landing system (ILS).
According to airport officials, repeated complaints to the district administration and the forest department to keep the area free from blue bulls and peacocks have fallen on deaf ears.
21/07/11 Faiz Rahman Siddiqui/Times of India
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