Chennai, March 14. Close on the heels of a Saudi passenger jetliner making a wrong landing in the runway area closed for maintenance at the Chennai airport yesterday, an Air France freighter aircraft coming from Abu Dhabi landed in the displaced threshold area today.
According to airport souces, the Air France jumbo jet (AF6744) landed in the 570 meter area of the main runway which was also closed for maintenance. The wrong landing resulted in severe damage to one of the tyres. The incident occured at 1026am when the cargo aircraft arrived from the Pallavaram end of the runway
Two B747 aircraft from different airlines in two days...... methinks that someone should do something about improving the marking showing the exact location of the displaced threshold ...
Mutt.