Crash averted with minute to spare
CHENNAI: A mid-air collision between two flights over Tiruchi was averted at the last minute on Saturday when a Chennai-Madurai Air India flight and a Thiruvananthapuram-Chennai Jet Airways flight came too close. There were 173 passengers on board the two flights.
Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) alarm went off in the cockpits of both the aircraft at 1.15pm while they were flying at 16,000 feet over Tiruchi. TCAS issued a ‘resolution advisory’ which means the flights were one minute away from colliding with one another. Air India IC 671 flight had 118 passengers and Jet Airways 9W 2758 flight had 55 passengers on board.
Sources said the AI flight was descending to land at Madurai airport while Jet Airways aircraft was on a course of ascent after taking off from Thiruvananthapuram airport. ‘‘Both the aircraft were given different routes, but somehow the flights came close when the AI flight was told to descend for landing at Madurai airport. The AI aircraft was supposed to descend on a different track. We are yet to pinpoint the error,’’ said a source.
Soon after the warning was sounded in the cockpits, the pilots corrected the course and averted a major accident. The air traffic was being controlled by Thiruvananthapuram air traffic control.
Exactly Vijay......even Emirates Flying Academy trained pilots at Simulators (better than PS4 :P
These pilots would have given training probably in the PS4
Management need to be blame because i think no one is taking any responsibility for so many incident happening in Indian Air Space.
With the limited budget allotted to Air India, the quality of aircrafts and crew are being affected. They should just close down Air India and do a complete overhaul and stop pretending that everything is fine.
This is getting really serious, the frequency of near or actual air traffic disasters Really something to be thought about.
This alert device was fitted after the first collision took place recently in mid air sometime back.
Heard this news last evening....
Thank God for saving human life :)
Rizks an Indian cargo ship is sinking in the Arbian Ocean near Oman after being caught in the typhoon.
The aircrafts came dangerously close at the same height about 1000 feet apart which I guess is very very close
Bloody Hell...wats going on ?
Now m feeling scared to travel by Air.
Thinking of traveling by SEA ( Submirines) back home...:(
this is the third one. AI flight from Dubai to Pune dropped around 35,000 ft before the flight was brought under control
WTF! Does anyone know how to fly a plane now a days? This is not looking good for AI business...two major stories like this in such a short period..i think besides going on strikes for higher pay they need to just pack up and get out of the Aviation Industry. Dumb Arses!