Safety of passengers and aircraft is becoming a major concern at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) with the number of bird hits and air incidents in the Mumbai airspace going up substantially in the last one year.
The data on safety audit conducted recently, which is available with the Air Traffic Control (ATC), reveal that there were 13 reported air miss incidents in 2013-14. It was only 10 a year before.
Similarly, bird hits, which cause losses of about Rs 20 crore every year to the aviation industry and could turn fatal at times, went up to 65 in 2012-13 compared to 52 in 2012-13. However, runway incursions have come down, from 4 to 2, during the same period.
Air incidents as per aviation parlance include a near collision, a flight going out of control into the terrain (marginally avoided), aborted take-off or landing in a closed or engaged runway, system or operational failure that could have caused difficulties in controlling the aircraft, shortage of fuel below permitted limit, etc.
03/05/14 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
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The data on safety audit conducted recently, which is available with the Air Traffic Control (ATC), reveal that there were 13 reported air miss incidents in 2013-14. It was only 10 a year before.
Similarly, bird hits, which cause losses of about Rs 20 crore every year to the aviation industry and could turn fatal at times, went up to 65 in 2012-13 compared to 52 in 2012-13. However, runway incursions have come down, from 4 to 2, during the same period.
Air incidents as per aviation parlance include a near collision, a flight going out of control into the terrain (marginally avoided), aborted take-off or landing in a closed or engaged runway, system or operational failure that could have caused difficulties in controlling the aircraft, shortage of fuel below permitted limit, etc.
03/05/14 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
