“The airport is susceptible to frequent weather changes due to its geographical location. The measurement is dependent upon human judgement which may not be accurate and can become a potential safety hazard,” stated the DGCA report made public recently on the hard landing of an Air India flight from Dubai on August 14, 2012. No one was injured in the incident.
It said the investigation was conducted not to apportion blame or to assess individual or collective responsibility. The sole objective is to draw lessons from this serious incident, which may help prevent such future accidents or incidents, it added.
According to the report, the runway visibility in the airport was “measured manually” as the “modern instrumented RVR system capable of displaying changing visibility is not available” at the Mangalore Airport.
The visibility for the period then was reported to be 800 metres, while none of the tower officials was able to sight the aircraft’s landing profile and its exit from Runway 24 after landing presumably due to low visibility, the report said.
It noted that the ‘observation post’ of the meteorological office was located far behind the control tower, at a distance of about one kilometre, in the old terminal building.
Additional manpower
However, additional manpower is posted at the new control tower during bad weather situations to provide spot weather observations.
16/12/15 Deccan Herald
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It said the investigation was conducted not to apportion blame or to assess individual or collective responsibility. The sole objective is to draw lessons from this serious incident, which may help prevent such future accidents or incidents, it added.
According to the report, the runway visibility in the airport was “measured manually” as the “modern instrumented RVR system capable of displaying changing visibility is not available” at the Mangalore Airport.
The visibility for the period then was reported to be 800 metres, while none of the tower officials was able to sight the aircraft’s landing profile and its exit from Runway 24 after landing presumably due to low visibility, the report said.
It noted that the ‘observation post’ of the meteorological office was located far behind the control tower, at a distance of about one kilometre, in the old terminal building.
Additional manpower
However, additional manpower is posted at the new control tower during bad weather situations to provide spot weather observations.
16/12/15 Deccan Herald
