Calcutta airport can’t extend the length of a runway by 400 metres in the time earth orbits 6.5 billion kilometres around the sun.
Seven years and counting — that’s how long the secondary runway extension project has been stretched for reasons ranging from delayed eviction of encroachers to obstacles on the flight path that weren’t accounted for in the original feasibility report.
The shorter length of the secondary runway was the reason why airport officials were in a tizzy after a pothole was spotted on the main tarmac on the eve of Hillary Clinton’s arrival last Sunday. Under aviation guidelines for VVIPs, the Boeing C-32 aircraft carrying Hillary couldn’t have been cleared for landing on the alternate runway because of its length.
Sources said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had withheld safety clearance for the southern extension of the secondary runway based on the first report sent by the airport authorities last year.
14/05/12 Sanjay Mandal/The Telegraph
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