Steps for safer flights

Calcutta: The civil aviation authorities of India and Bangladesh have agreed on several measures to make flights between the city and Northeast destinations safer.
The Calcutta-Agartala route, the busiest in the region, will be made one-way and another route will be created for flights moving in the opposite direction.
Currently both sets of flights move along the same route, sometimes separated only vertically.
Improvement of coordination between the air traffic controls of Dhaka and Calcutta, introduction of the repetitive flight plan system at the Bangladesh airport and preparation of a draft for cooperation in search and rescue operations are some of the other measures in the agreement signed by the civil aviation authorities after a three-day meeting in the city that ended on Friday.
Representatives of all the Northeast airports and pilots of a couple of airlines also took part in the meeting. The last such meeting was held in 2003. The number of flights has since doubled in the seven routes between Calcutta and the Northeast.
Around 5,000 people take the 70-odd flights between the city and various destinations in the Northeast every day.
23/07/11 Sanjay Mandal/The Telegraph

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Categories: Airports Jul 2011, Safety Jul 2011