Patna airport unsafe for big jets, DGCA tells AAI

New Delhi: In the first action of its kind in India, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has termed Patna airport as 'unsafe'. Operation of big aircraft like Boeing 737 and Airbus A-320 on the runway of an airport that is surrounded by tall trees is "being undertaken in violation of requirements of civil aviation requirement on aerodrome design and operations".
The regulator has asked the Airports Authority of India which runs the airport, to reduce the available runway length at Patna and mark it accordingly by Wednesday (June 11) "on a most urgent basis". Patna in any case, has a small 1,954-metre-long runway without the required runway end safety area. On one approach side of the runway is a zoo and botanical garden and on the other is a rail line and tall treeson railway land.
11/07/12 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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Categories: airports Jul 2012, Safety Jul 2012