New Delhi: A near miss situation was averted at the IGI airport last evening when the pilot of a small plane entered the runway after but an alert ATC directed an incoming aircraft to go around and another to abort take-off.
But Director General of Civil Aviation Arun Mishra told PTI, "It is not a serious incident", while a Civil Aviation Ministry official said the mistake was "immediately noticed and the situation was brought under control".
The incident occured at 1903 hours when the pilot of a private plane, having call sign VT-LTA, entered Runway 28 by misreading an ATC instruction, sent to another plane with VT- CLA call-sign to cross the runway, as its own, ATC sources said.
When VT-CLA, a Cessna-560 of A R Airways, was asked to vacate runway on landing, the pilot of VT-LTA (a Hawker- Beechcraft 900XP of L&T Aviation Services), which was crossing over to Terminal 1-D from Terminal-3, misread the instruction and got into the runway, the sources said.
This happened when a Jet Airways Boeing 737 was readying for take-off and another plane of the same airline was coming in to land, they said.
06/11/12 PTI/Business Standard
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But Director General of Civil Aviation Arun Mishra told PTI, "It is not a serious incident", while a Civil Aviation Ministry official said the mistake was "immediately noticed and the situation was brought under control".
The incident occured at 1903 hours when the pilot of a private plane, having call sign VT-LTA, entered Runway 28 by misreading an ATC instruction, sent to another plane with VT- CLA call-sign to cross the runway, as its own, ATC sources said.
When VT-CLA, a Cessna-560 of A R Airways, was asked to vacate runway on landing, the pilot of VT-LTA (a Hawker- Beechcraft 900XP of L&T Aviation Services), which was crossing over to Terminal 1-D from Terminal-3, misread the instruction and got into the runway, the sources said.
This happened when a Jet Airways Boeing 737 was readying for take-off and another plane of the same airline was coming in to land, they said.
06/11/12 PTI/Business Standard
