Mumbai: Every commercial passenger aircraft has a set of life-saving devices that check for possible mid-air collisions. If two aircraft come dangerously close, the collision avoidance system of both planes work together to blare a persistent "climb, climb" instruction in one cockpit and "descend, descend" in the other. Had the technology not existed, between January and April this year, five collisions involving 10 passenger jets would have taken place in the Mumbai airspace.
In these four months, the Mumbai ATC registered 21 "reportable incidents" as against 19 registered in 2013. A reportable incident could be a minor case like an aircraft forced to do a second attempt at landing or a major one, like the five near-misses, where the planes came within 30 seconds of colliding with each other.
21/06/15 Manju V/Times of India
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In these four months, the Mumbai ATC registered 21 "reportable incidents" as against 19 registered in 2013. A reportable incident could be a minor case like an aircraft forced to do a second attempt at landing or a major one, like the five near-misses, where the planes came within 30 seconds of colliding with each other.
21/06/15 Manju V/Times of India
