Lack of fire fighting preparedness and emergency access roads,wrong marking on the runway, issue of License to airport, Air operator and pilot in violation of Aircraft Rules and a host of other reasons have been cited as the major reasons for the Air India Express 812 crash of May 22,2010, which claimed 158 lives by the 812 Foundation member while submitting a private complaint at the JMFC II court here on Tuesday.
Foundation president Yeshwanth Shenoy making his case before the JMFC II judge Kulkarini SR, named 15 persons including Air India (AI), Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and Airports Authority of India (AAI) in the complaint.He said as per norms emergency access roads should be provided for an aerodrome where terrain conditions permit their construction, to facilitate achieving minimum response times - which is at the maximum three minutes. In Bajpe air crash, the fire fighters had reportedly reached in 15 minutes.
Shenoy quoting the writ petition filed in Karnataka High Court in 1997 pointed out that in crash of the Alliance Airlines in Lucknow, as in the case of the crash of the AB-320 airplane in Bangalore, even lesser physical impediments caused a very high response time resulting in unnecessary loss of life and property.Shenoy also brought to the attention of the judge that in 1997 one Arthur Pereira had filed writ petitions Airports Authority of India (AAI) in the Karnataka High Court regarding standards for providing the minimum area for a stop way / a clear way in the event an aircraft undershoots or over-runs the runway.
07/03/12 Stanley Pinto/Times of India
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