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Schumi - Red Baron
10th Feb 2009, 03:06
VOA News - Collision Averted in Mumbai Between Air India Jetliner, Presidential Helicopter Fleet (http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-02-09-voa14.cfm)
What do you think about it....Is it only india or these things happen everywhere but go unnoticed.....
I heard something similar in ireland few days ago....
Thud_and_Blunder
10th Feb 2009, 08:25
Not only India - ISTR a close encounter between a Puma carrying M Thatcher and a fixed wing at LHR quite a few years ago.
SASless
10th Feb 2009, 13:34
Some difference in the way "VIP-1" traffic is handled in India compared to "Air Force 1" in the USA....remember when Bill Clinton shut down southern California while he got a hair cut.
inmate
10th Feb 2009, 13:56
The haircut was probibly an afterthought, couldn't enjoy a ciggi in a "no smoking" area.:E
alouette3
10th Feb 2009, 14:29
Seems like a lot of factual errors in that piece. I can't beleive a helicopter carrying the President was "not in contact with ATC".
Air India does not have A321s.
Finally, VIP 1 is an Indian Air Force 737 and not a 747. The Indian President uses a 747 chartered from Air India for international travel. Domestic travel is undertaken in the Air Force 737.
Notwithstanding all that, a near disaster and a huge scandal averted.
Alt3
Schumi - Red Baron
11th Feb 2009, 03:07
Another incident in india the day after the runway incursion...This time mid-air collision scare...
Near miss between Air India and IAF planes (http://ibnlive.in.com/news/near-miss-between-air-india-and-iaf-planes/85002-3.html)
And alt3 Air india do have A321...
Air India Fleet - Airfleets (http://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/Air%20India.htm)
alouette3
11th Feb 2009, 05:09
Schumi-Red Baron:
Thank you for that info. I guess my info was a tad dated. Do you know if AI inherited these A320/321s after the merger or they acquired them separately?
The second incident is reminiscent of the Russian IL76 and Saudia 747 collision many years ago near Delhi. I think the problem then (and now) was the fact that the IL76s still use the metric system for altitude and airspedd and need conversion charts to maintain assigned altitudes.Messy.
Alt3