Did they trained in Kanada or USA ?
Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 1:00 am
[font=verdana][size=2]The Wall Street Journal
By VIBHUTI AGARWAL
May 23, 2016 1:39 pm IST
It’s yet another embarrassing incident that calls aviation safety in India to question.
Two pilots of IndiGo, the country’s leading budget airline, were dismissed from duty this weekend for trying to land on a road, thinking it was the runway.
In the incident Feb. 27, the aircraft, an Airbus A320, was barely a few hundred feet from landing on a road which runs parallel to Jaipur airport in the western state of Rajasthan. The maneuver set off a “too-low terrain warning†that prompted the pilots to get into action, IndiGo said in a statement Sunday.
The pilots were alerted by the enhanced ground proximity warning system, or EGPWS, an audio warning system in the cockpit.
The captain-in-command “immediately took a precautionary measure and carried a go-around†with the aircraft subsequently landing safely on the runway, the airline said.
The airline’s flight-safety department suspended both pilots from duty following a two-month investigation. The incident has also been reported to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the country’s aviation regulator, IndiGo said.[/size][/font]
By VIBHUTI AGARWAL
May 23, 2016 1:39 pm IST
It’s yet another embarrassing incident that calls aviation safety in India to question.
Two pilots of IndiGo, the country’s leading budget airline, were dismissed from duty this weekend for trying to land on a road, thinking it was the runway.
In the incident Feb. 27, the aircraft, an Airbus A320, was barely a few hundred feet from landing on a road which runs parallel to Jaipur airport in the western state of Rajasthan. The maneuver set off a “too-low terrain warning†that prompted the pilots to get into action, IndiGo said in a statement Sunday.
The pilots were alerted by the enhanced ground proximity warning system, or EGPWS, an audio warning system in the cockpit.
The captain-in-command “immediately took a precautionary measure and carried a go-around†with the aircraft subsequently landing safely on the runway, the airline said.
The airline’s flight-safety department suspended both pilots from duty following a two-month investigation. The incident has also been reported to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the country’s aviation regulator, IndiGo said.[/size][/font]