India

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    Plane Struck on Runway


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    Contact photographer Max Bryansky

    What: Air India Boeing 747-437 to Copenhagen
    Where: Indira Gandhi International Airport
    When: Dec 17, 2009 2:30 pm
    Who: Prime Minister
    Why: While on the tarmac, the Boeing 747 “Agra” was struck by a food delivery vehicle.

    The plane involved in the incident was the Indian Prime Minister’s plane. Subsequent to the incident, the Prime Minister departed from Delhi on an alternate plane.

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    Mumbai Aviation News

    Mumbai airport experienced a 35% drop on a runway shortened due to repair work. When visibility decreased, diversions to longer runways and areas of higher visibility increased, and several flights were discontinued entirely.

    Dating from October 27, on every Tuesday, from 12noon to 6pm, the intersection point of cross runways 09-27 and 14:32 is closed for repair work. Four nearly fatal incidents occurred on the runway during the week of November 3.

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    Hot Boeing Returns to Mumbai


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    Contact photographer Jason Whitebird

    What: British Airways Boeing 747-400 en route from Mumbai to London
    Where: Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
    When: Thursday Oct 1 2009
    Who: 207 passengers
    Why: Half an hour after takeoff, the fire alarm went off in the cockpit. The plane immediately returned to the airport, landing an hour after takeoff. Passengers debarked safely.

    The only heat maintenance found was hot brakes.

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    Runway Fire Damages Boeing

    What: NACL B747-400 en route from Mumbai to Riyadh
    Where: Mumbai
    When: Sept 4 2009, 5:30
    Who: 229 aboard
    Why: NACIL B747-400 aircraft was en route from Mumbai to Riyadh with 213 passengers and 16 crew members onboard. While taxing for takeoff, the controller informed the aircraft that there was a heavy fuel leak from the left side of the aircraft and instructed to switch off the engines immediately as the fire had developed. The crew carried out the emergency shut down for all the engines. The Cabin crew ordered evacuation. Passengers and crew evacuated the aircraft safely through slide chutes. Fire services reached the aircraft and put off the fire.

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    IndiGo Airbus Lands with Engine Fire


    An Indigo Airbus arriving from Delhi
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    Contact Photographer Sunandan Subramaniam

    What: IndiGo Airbus A320-200 en route from Bangalore to New Delhi India
    Where: Hyderabad
    When: Sep 1st 2009
    Who: 99 aboard
    Why: While over Hyderabad, smoke was seen coming from an engine, and the fire alert went off. The plane managed a safe landing. It was not noted if the passengers debarked normally, or by slides, but no injuries were reported.

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    Kingfisher Bird strike at Guwahati

    What: Kingfisher Red en route from Imphal-Guwahati-Kolkata
    Where: Guwahati airport
    When: Saturday August 15, 2009
    Who: not available
    Why: On takeoff, the Kingfisher flight suffered a bird strike on a wing. ATC declared an emergency and the plane landed safely. A maintenance inspection found traces of the bird strike. The flight was grounded for repairs

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    Airbus with Smoke in Cabin Lands in India


    Pictured: A Kingfisher Airlines Airbus
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    Contact Photographer Steve Brimley

    What: Guwahati- Kolkata Kingfisher Airbus A320-200 en route from Guwahati to Kolkata
    Where: NSC Bose International Airport (Kolkata Airport is also known as Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport)
    When: Jul 7th 2009
    Who: 117 passengers (alternately reported as 170)
    Why: 125 km from landing at Kolkata, smoke was reported in the cabin coming from a galley. The plane landed safely and passengers debarked normally.

    A newspaper report claims there was a false alarm from a cockpit indicator reporting a fire in the cargo belly. No plane registration number was given for either report, though, so it conceivably could have been sloppy reportage of two separate KingFisher Airbuses at the same airport.

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    Airbus 321-200 engine problem in India


    View from an airbus similar to the one in the incident
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    Contact Photographer Nitin Sarin

    What: Air India Airbus A321-200 en route from Kochi to New Delhi
    Where: Nagpur
    When: Jul 3rd 2009
    Who: 151 passengers and 6 crew
    Why: When the engine shut down amid-flight, the plane diverted to Nagpur where it made an emergency landing without any known injuries. Technical details regarding the engine problem have not been released.

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    Fly Keystone Cops, no, I mean Fly India

    George’s Point of View

    Once upon a time, there were two runways: Runway 27 and Runway 14. They crossed each other. It didn’t matter that they crossed each other because the KING of the runway (Air Traffic Control) never allowed planes in a collision course. In Air Traffic Control school, they teach that a collision course would be a very bad thing.

    So one day, an Air India A310 was on Runway 27, and waiting for input from Air Traffic Control. And, simultaneously, a Jet Airways Boeing 737-800, flight was waiting on Runway 14.

    Somehow, both planes started to take-off.

    Air Traffic control recognized that the very bad thing was about to happen, and cancelled one of the take-offs.

    Fortunately both pilots were awake, saw the what was happening and both pilots rejected takeoff.

    (Fortunately, they teach that a collision course is a bad thing in Pilot school too. Nice juxtaposition, that.)

    It’s a good day when no one dies from the accident that could have happened.

    It’s not a happy ending yet, because it won’t be over until the investigation is over. No one died…but it remains to be seen if heads may still roll.

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    Bomb Scare

    What: Oman Air Boeing 737-800 en route from Muscat to Chennai
    Where: Mumbai
    When: May 25, 2009
    Who: 140 passengers
    Why: When a passenger found a suspicious object and a letter which threatened to kill all the passengers aboard the flight, the crew requested an emergency landing.

    Another source quoted: ‘a flight attendant had found a note in one of the lavatories saying “you will all die. Bye.”‘

    The flight landed safely and the passengers were directed to another plane.

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    Indian Airlines Safe Emergency Landing

    What: Indian Airlines en route from Shamshabad Airport to Tirupati
    Where: Shamshabad International Airport
    When: fifteen minutes after takeoff at 1:55 pm. Thursday May 7
    Who: 135 passengers including the Minister for Endowments J Ratnakar Rao
    Why: The plane returned to the airport when the pilot had technical difficulties.

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    Near Collision over India


    Air India Airbus similar to the one in the near collision
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    Contact Sreenath Yellamrazu – Indian Aviation Photographers


    IAF Gajaraj IL 76 similar to the one in the near collision
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    Contact Photographer Jonathan Derden

    What: Air India’s Airbus 320 Flight IC 206 en route from Dibrugarh via Jorhat to Kolkata
    and an Indian Air Force transport IAF Gajaraj IL 76 en route to Dibrugarh at 19,000 feet flflying at a speed of 600 km per hour.
    Where: over Jorhat in Upper Assam, around 300 km from Guwahati
    When: Tuesday
    Who: 43 passengers in the Airbus. The number aboard the Air Force plane was not disclosed.
    Why: Pilot Joydeb Banerjee saw the air force plane about 300 feet away –Banerjee and co- pilot Neeraj Singha of IC 206 alerted the ATCs at Jorhat and Dibrugarh. The Airbus dived 2,000 feet just in time to save the lives of his 43 passengers. His airbus had taken off from Dibrugarh at 11.55 am.

    An Airports Authority of India ATC officer stationed in the Mohanbari airport in Upper Assam was suspended for “apparent lack of co- ordination with the authorities in Jorhat”.

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    Air India Emergency Landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport

    What: Air India’s Delhi- Hyderabad-Tirupati flight (IC 942) en route from Indira Gandhi International airport to London
    Where: Indira Gandhi International airport
    When: Friday-10.15 takeoff; declared emergency around 11.15 am
    Who: 66 passengers on board 6 crew members
    Why: emergency landing an hour after take off. Passengers rerouted in another aircraft around 12.30 and took off around 1 pm. There was a technical emergency. No one was injured.

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    Delhi Emergency Landing

    What: London-bound Air India Boeing 777-300 flight AI-111 en route from Delhi
    Where: Delhi
    When: Saturday. The flight took off at 6:50 am. Emergency was declared at the airport at 7:50 am and it was withdrawn at 8:25 am after a safe landing.
    Who: 115 passengers and 15 crew members, all safe
    Why: After flying for 30 minutes, the alarm sounded, the pilot detected smoke in the cabin. and returned to the airport under Emergency conditions.

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    Falcon Emergency Landing


    What: twin-engine Falcon jet from Delhi en route to Coimbatore owned by the GMR group
    Where: Bangalore airport
    When: Thursday-3.05 pm.
    Who: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Finance Minister P Chidambaram. No injuries.
    Why: Engine developed a “snag.” Instruments showed a “drop” for the right engine, so the pilot switched the engine off and landed with one engine. Passengers transferred to another plane.

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    JAL471

    Japan Airlines flight 471
    On June 14, 1972, the DC-8 struck the banks of River Yamuna. JAL flight 471 from Tokyo to London (Tokyo-Hong Kong-Bangkok-New Delhi-Teheran-Cairo-Rome-Frankfurt-London) took-off from Bangkok. After receiving clearance for ILS approach to New Delhi Palam Airport, the aircraft crashed into the banks of Yamuna River. 86 passengers and crew onboard perished, and 3 were serious injured.

    The first officer was flying the approach to Delhi. Japanese investigators claimed a false glide path signal was responsible for the descent into terrain. Indian investigators say the accident was caused by a disregard of procedures by the crew and abandoning all instrument indications without properly ensuring sighting of the runway. The accident was classified as (CFIT) Controlled Flight Into Terrain.