An Air-India Dreamliner 787 was at low altitude on Tuesday morning and about to touchdown at the wrong Melbourne Airport, Essendon rather than nearby Melbourne International, when it was warned off by AirServices Australia.
A full and well illustrated account of the sub-standard flight safety standards displayed by the Air-India crew has been published on the Carry On site.
It nearly made Melbourne the setting for a fourth high profile wrong airport landing in recent times, as outlined on Carry On.
Or even a fifh if the Ethiopian landing of a 767 at the wrong airport near Mt Kilimanjaro in December is included in what looks like an epidemic of in-flight clumsiness to the general media, yet is statistically insignificant given the overall volume of safe world wide air traffic movements.
The ATSB has confirmed that it has been notified of the Air-India incident but has decided that it will not launch on inquiry.
17/01/14 Ben Sandilands/Crikey
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A full and well illustrated account of the sub-standard flight safety standards displayed by the Air-India crew has been published on the Carry On site.
It nearly made Melbourne the setting for a fourth high profile wrong airport landing in recent times, as outlined on Carry On.
Or even a fifh if the Ethiopian landing of a 767 at the wrong airport near Mt Kilimanjaro in December is included in what looks like an epidemic of in-flight clumsiness to the general media, yet is statistically insignificant given the overall volume of safe world wide air traffic movements.
The ATSB has confirmed that it has been notified of the Air-India incident but has decided that it will not launch on inquiry.
17/01/14 Ben Sandilands/Crikey
