Trichy: A year after a Dubai-bound Air India Express flight had a narrow escape after hitting the compound wall of the international airport here, there is no sign of the Director-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) releasing its report on the cause of the incident. Worse still, land acquisition for expanding the runway, the shortest in an international airport in the country, has been progressing at a snail’s pace.
Among the various probabilities that preliminary investigations threw up was the plane overshooting the threshold area of the runway due to insufficient buffer space.
The accident, experts said, necessitated expanding the runway length from 8,136 feet to 12,000 feet. Revenue officials who are responsible for speeding up land acquisition for runway expansion continue to claim that work is on.
Out of the 510 acres required for expansion, 165 acres is with defence ministry.
Though the state government has to give alternate land to the ministry for acquiring it, the process has been dragging on. Among the remaining 345 acres of land comprising government poramboke, wet and dry land, some land parcels are yet to be acquired, officials said.
District revenue officer T Shanthi told TOI that the land to be handed over to defence ministry has been identified in Kancheepuram. District collector S Sivarasu too visited the area. Once the defence authorities approve the identified land in Kancheepuram, other things would be executed swiftly, she said. When contacted, airport director K Gunasekaran told TOI that the DGCA report was being awaited as it would bring out the actual reason behind the incident.
13/10/19 D Vincent Arockiaraj/Times of India
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Among the various probabilities that preliminary investigations threw up was the plane overshooting the threshold area of the runway due to insufficient buffer space.
The accident, experts said, necessitated expanding the runway length from 8,136 feet to 12,000 feet. Revenue officials who are responsible for speeding up land acquisition for runway expansion continue to claim that work is on.
Out of the 510 acres required for expansion, 165 acres is with defence ministry.
Though the state government has to give alternate land to the ministry for acquiring it, the process has been dragging on. Among the remaining 345 acres of land comprising government poramboke, wet and dry land, some land parcels are yet to be acquired, officials said.
District revenue officer T Shanthi told TOI that the land to be handed over to defence ministry has been identified in Kancheepuram. District collector S Sivarasu too visited the area. Once the defence authorities approve the identified land in Kancheepuram, other things would be executed swiftly, she said. When contacted, airport director K Gunasekaran told TOI that the DGCA report was being awaited as it would bring out the actual reason behind the incident.
13/10/19 D Vincent Arockiaraj/Times of India
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