In Mangalore
Heavy rains, no landing system forces Air India Express plane with 150 on board to land in Kozhikode
M Raghuram. Mangalore
Memories of the May 22 air crash of Air India Express's Dubai-Mangalore flight IX-812, heavy rains and a yet-to-be-repaired Instrument Landing System (ILS) at Mangalore's Bajpe Airport are making it extremely difficult for pilots to land at this aerodrome which is claimed to be an all-weather one.
On Wednesday, this became evident when, again, an Air India Express flight on the same Dubai-Mangalore route was forced to abort landing during heavy rains at Bajpe at 6.10am and made to proceed to Kozhikode instead.
The flight with 144 passengers and six crew members approached the Bajpe airport runway and tried to land in heavy rains, Chellam Prakash, station manager, Air India, said.
Poor visibility, heavy rains and a fear of an encore of the May 22 air crash when the ill-fated flight overshot the runway and crashed into the ravine beyond the runway killing 158, forced the Mangalore air traffic control (ATC) to ask the pilot to abort landing at Bajpe airport and diverted the plane to Kozhikode.
Airport Authority of India (AAI) officials told DNA that the ILS, which was damaged during the IX-812 flight's crash at Bajpe airport, was not yet functional as the system engineers had not fixed it. An airport official told DNA: "Visibility had come down to 100 metres due to heavy rains. Air India pilots are not allowed to land unless there is a clear visibility of 2,000 feet from the landing threshold. In the absence of a working ILS we could not permit pilots to land at Bajpe and asked them to come back later."
The flight then landed safely at Kozhikode at about 7.15am.
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