Kolkata: A disaster was averted at the Kolkata airport on Wednesday morning when an alert controller spotted a pilot error in the nick of time and took immediate corrective action. The plane, a Boeing 767-200 aircraft, could have overshot the runway and plowed into the airport wall, leading to a major catastrophe had the controller not acted on time.
According to sources, a non-scheduled passenger aircraft belonging to Jet Aviation was flying to Kolkata from Bangkok. When it approached from the Barasat side to the north of the airport, the controller asked it to land on the secondary runway as repairs were underway on the primary runway.
The plane slowly descended for landing, but when it was around 7 nautical miles from Kolkata airport, it suddenly veered to the left and continued to do so further away from the primary runway, towards the heavily populated Narayanpur to the south-east of the airport. It was around 10.59am.
28/08/14 Times of India
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According to sources, a non-scheduled passenger aircraft belonging to Jet Aviation was flying to Kolkata from Bangkok. When it approached from the Barasat side to the north of the airport, the controller asked it to land on the secondary runway as repairs were underway on the primary runway.
The plane slowly descended for landing, but when it was around 7 nautical miles from Kolkata airport, it suddenly veered to the left and continued to do so further away from the primary runway, towards the heavily populated Narayanpur to the south-east of the airport. It was around 10.59am.
28/08/14 Times of India
