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Planes come within 40 metres of head-on collision at IGI Airport (New Delhi, INDIA)
New Delhi: Close Shave For 350 Passengers As Miscommunication Almost Leads To Disaster A tragedy was averted on Tuesday morning when two aircraft came face to face on a taxiway at Indira Gandhi International Airport. The incident took place around 7.30am when IndiGo flight 6E-769 from Lucknow landed at runway 1028 and entered taxiway E2. At the same time, SpiceJet flight SG123 -operating from Delhi to Hyderabad sought permission to return to its bay for refuelling as it had been waiting for… (epaperbeta.timesofindia.com) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
ROFL...thanks James for adding a bit of humour
What a sensational headline. No near miss, no one endangered at all. The one airlines "switched his engine off"????? Yeah, right. That would be a great SOP.
Lo vis, a confused pilot regarding his exact location (of course, doesn't have a moving map on an iPad, that's too advanced) blown all out of proportion and I wasted 10 minutes reading and commenting. Grrrrtt
Lo vis, a confused pilot regarding his exact location (of course, doesn't have a moving map on an iPad, that's too advanced) blown all out of proportion and I wasted 10 minutes reading and commenting. Grrrrtt
...Unfortunately, these types of runway incidents happen far more often than are reported or publisized
Why is that unfortunate? A near miss is a miss (and who decides what "Near" means?)
Because it happens more times than it should!
IMO, Tenerife, among others, was an example of a 'near miss'.
Tenerife was a disaster in the wings - bound to happen someplace, sometime. Collison, not near miss. I'll be in LPA next week to ferry a/c back to owner.
Not necessarily. The KLM pilot in Tenerife took off without ATC clearance. That is something every pilot should know never to do. KLM admitted that its crew was at fault and financially compensated all of the victims, including those on the Pan Am flight.
The KLM pilot apparently "misunderstood" ATC and thought he had clearance. But on a foggy day at an airport without ground radar, that was overwhelmed with an unusual number of aircraft parked on the taxiways (due to diversions caused by a bomb attack in the Canary Islands), I would certainly re-confirm takeoff clearance before going to full power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
The KLM pilot apparently "misunderstood" ATC and thought he had clearance. But on a foggy day at an airport without ground radar, that was overwhelmed with an unusual number of aircraft parked on the taxiways (due to diversions caused by a bomb attack in the Canary Islands), I would certainly re-confirm takeoff clearance before going to full power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
"Near miss" is semantically unclear. Safe travel.
Oddly, if you google "Define Near Miss" - they reference air travel....
near miss
noun
noun: near miss; plural noun: near misses
1. a narrowly avoided collision or other accident.
synonyms: close thing, near thing, narrow escape, close call; informal close shave
"two airliners were involved in a near miss yesterday"
near miss
noun
noun: near miss; plural noun: near misses
1. a narrowly avoided collision or other accident.
synonyms: close thing, near thing, narrow escape, close call; informal close shave
"two airliners were involved in a near miss yesterday"
I stand corrected. Opening one's mouth provides an opportunity to learn sometimes.
Referred to the OED:
1 A narrowly avoided collision or other accident:
‘she had a near miss when her horse was nearly sucked into a dyke’
‘the terrifying near miss took place at 4,500 ft’
2A bomb or shot that just misses its target:
‘he had escaped more than twenty near misses’
2.1 Something almost achieved:
‘a victory in Houston and a near miss in the finals of the French Open’
Referred to the OED:
1 A narrowly avoided collision or other accident:
‘she had a near miss when her horse was nearly sucked into a dyke’
‘the terrifying near miss took place at 4,500 ft’
2A bomb or shot that just misses its target:
‘he had escaped more than twenty near misses’
2.1 Something almost achieved:
‘a victory in Houston and a near miss in the finals of the French Open’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdctnPIR5kA