It's not even been a week since Manglore crashes, and an additional air accident could have happened if not averted at Mumbai airport last night, when a Kingfisher flight was cleared for landing on a runway where a SpiceJet aircraft were stationed on a technological error.
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered an search into the incident, told the DGCA chief SNA Zaidi PTI here.
The GoAir flights from Delhi, approached for landing at Mumbai's CST International Airport minutes ahead of Kingfisher's turbo-prop ATR 72-500 aircraft is cleared for take-off at 1336 hours, a Kingfisher spokesperson said.
When Kingisher's Mumbai-Bhavnagar flight IT-4123 began to drop into the active runway, air traffic control asked it to come to an end the takeoff. ATR aircraft that was on his first throw, right away from the start and back to the bay.
With reports that air traffic controllers gave the go-ahead for the GoAir aircraft to land at about the same time, sources said flight data recorders of both planes that records pilot ATC discussion would be sealed for DGCA exams.
The sources said reports of a second Kingfisher flight IT 308 from Delhi was cleared to land at Mumbai approximately the same time was not correct when it was nearly eight miles of miles from the airport when the incident had taken place.
They also said that the IT-308, operated by an Airbus A-320 family of aircraft made a normal landing and not make a "go around" or take an extra lap before they came ashore.
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