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Old 13th October 2005 | 10:39
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EMB170
 
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From: Dream land
Little add on to mr kumar,

his response, utter rubish!
been flying around india for last three month and i have following advise to give!!
1. watch where you are going, people just running around everywhere on the airfield, dogs on runway and taxi way very common.

2.most important of all, DO NOT, i say DO NOT go to india on minimum or anywhere near minimum fuel.

only last week ,went from dubai to delhi and as on every flight checked notams and so on. about 40 minutes into flight was told by karachi control, delhi airport was closed due to military excersise, expect one hour delay,wasn't published anywhere.

coming back to mumbai (bombay)!
went there last monday,two days after crash and guess what, yes it was a problem, because rwy 14 has no taxi way past intersection, hence you got to back track!

we were number six , again 1 hour delay, and the vectoring again was total madness! aircraft were told to orbit in present position,just about anywhwere in the sky, after 20 mins they sent us in published hold 90 track miles from approach.

not surprisingly airlines running short fuel ,couple of RA's and so it goes on.
again on departure, minimum 1hour delay!

good luck if you got to go there!

regards
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