Aviation safety...
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: India
Posts: 163
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Aviation safety...
VOA News - Collision Averted in Mumbai Between Air India Jetliner, Presidential Helicopter Fleet
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....
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....
Not only India - ISTR a close encounter between a Puma carrying M Thatcher and a fixed wing at LHR quite a few years ago.
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.
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: USA
Posts: 336
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
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
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
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: India
Posts: 163
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Another one....
Another incident in india the day after the runway incursion...This time mid-air collision scare...
Near miss between Air India and IAF planes
And alt3 Air india do have A321...
Air India Fleet - Airfleets
Near miss between Air India and IAF planes
And alt3 Air india do have A321...
Air India Fleet - Airfleets
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: USA
Posts: 336
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
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
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
