Janata Dal (United) president and former Civil Aviation Minister Sharad Yadav said the barrier of language might have led to the Managalore air crash in which 158 persons onboard were killed.
An ATC officer's job requires 100 per cent concentration and a break after every one-and-a-half hours.
One hundred and ninety two passengers and crew on board three United States passenger jets had a narrow escape when their aircraft came within seconds of a midair collision at Reagan National Airport in Washington on Tuesday, a media report said on Thursday.
Two Air Traffic Control officials in Mumbai were on Tuesday taken off duty -- pending an inquiry by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation -- into the near miss between an Air India plane and a helicopter belonging to the President's entourage. The two officials have been 'de-rostered' during the inquiry, sources said while clarifying that they have not been placed under suspension. The identity of the officials has not been revealed.
A Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 with at least 44 people aboard disappeared from radar scenes during a half-hour demonstration flight in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta on Wednesday.
Two British nationals were detained in New Delhi for allegedly recording the conversation between pilots and Air Traffic Control prompting government to explore the possibility of booking the duo under a suitable law.When confronted about the recording, the sources said, the duo told interrogators that it was their hobby which is known as "plane spotting".
Four days on, a massive search and rescue operation to trace the Russian-origin aircraft continues, with these tense circumstances leaving family members in despair.
After taking off, the captain of the Kingfisher Airlines flight from Hyderabad to Delhi alerted air traffic control saying that he was receiving a smoke detection indication in the cargo hold of the aircraft. As per standard airline procedures, he requested to return to Hyderabad. During the precautionary unloading of the cargo, an un-identified substance was located.
Two officials of the Airports Authority of India have been suspended in connection with a communication failure in June between a special jet carrying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Air Traffic Control in New Delhi.
Flight operations were affected after a minor fire broke out in the air traffic control room at Chennai airport in the wee hours on Tuesday.
All passengers are safe and they de-boarded the plane after being in the aircraft for about an hour.
An unprecedented 17,000 flights were grounded as drifting volcanic ash cloud forced a no-fly-zone over almost the whole of Europe, shutting down major hubs including London, Paris and Frankfurt, and stranding millions of travellers. For the third day in succession, massive drifts of volcanic ash blanketed European airspace. The black plume forced country's to extend bans on most flights with Air Traffic Control in Britain, Germany, Denmark, Nordic countries, France.
A goof-up by Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal's security coordination committee led the helicopter carrying him to the wrong destination.
Seeking lenient punishment, the accused, hailing from Bristol in the United Kingdom, claimed ignorance about the penal consequences of their plane-spotting hobby in New Delhi while admitting their guilt.
A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to two Britons detained here for allegedly recording the conversation between pilots and Air Traffic Control.
A woman passenger claimed that she had explosives and threatened to blow up the aircraft mid-air but it turned out to be a hoax. No bombs were found following a thorough search of the plane after it made an emergency landing.
A Bangkok-bound chartered US plane carrying American marines among 205 passengers, which was ordered by authorities to land at Mumbai airport for flying over Indian airspace without getting mandatory military clearance, took off on Monday after being grounded for over 33 hours.
In the second incident of security breach within four days, a cargo jet belonging to logistics firm UPS was forced to return 45 minutes after take-off from the airport last night for lack of mandatory custom clearances of a consignment.
All borders of the national capital will be sealed for the entry of commercial and heavy vehicles by Thursday midnight apart from heavy police deployment, they said.
More than 250 flights from London's Heathrow and Gatwick Airports, including to and from India, were grounded on Thursday due to ash from Iceland's spewing volcano.
The two British "plane spotters" held for allegedly recording conversations between pilots and Air Traffic Control were today booked under the Telegraph Act, a week after they were detained in the capital.
Indian Air Force fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a foreign aircraft with its origin in Iran that was moving towards New Delhi's airspace.
Four days after it was opened, the third runway at the Delhi airport was closed today after some crucial equipment stopped functioning. Operations had already got restricted to daytime after the runway lights failed over the weekend, rendering it unusable at night.
A helicopter of state-run Pawan Hans with three persons on board including a senior police officer on Tuesday went missing for a while before being spotted in a dense forest.
Air traffic controllers are skilled at the tense and complex jugglery of separating fast-flying aircraft from one another by keeping them at different altitudes and areas. But it takes time and causes delays.
A Mumbai to Bengaluru Kingfisher Airlines flight had to make an emergency landing at the Mumbai airport soon after take-off after its landing gear malfunctioned on Tuesday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday said it will take over on Thursday the investigations into the helicopter crash that killed former chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.
The pilots of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's ill-fated Bell 430 helicopter had tried to contact the Air Traffic Control, Chennai, at least twice and had desperately called for guidance, as they had lost their route. The revelations can put the ATC Chennai in dock for negligence leading to the fatal crash.
"By triangulation, we have located the area which is about 5-km radius circle and it has been identified based on the last contact with the air traffic control," Chavan, Union minister of state in the Prime Minister's Office, told reporters
A Chennai-bound Indian flight from Singapore with 132 passengers onboard on Saturday landed under emergency conditions at the airport in Chennai after one of its tyres burst minutes before touch down.
Singapore Airlines on Tuesday said Vistara will be merged with Tata group-owned Air India. Tata group owns a 51 per cent stake in Vistara, and the remaining 49 per cent shareholding is with Singapore Airlines (SIA). As part of the transaction, SIA will also invest Rs 2,058.5 crore in Air India.
The IAF has cleared the 11-member crew. The ATC in Mumbai had ordered the aircraft to land at Sahar airport as it did not have 'air defence clearance'.
The incident occurred when the A321 aircraft of the national carrier took off from Pune airport. However, despite the incident, it landed at the Delhi airport safely.
A Srinagar-bound SpiceJet aircraft with 186 passengers on board landed under emergency conditions in New Delhi on Monday after Air Traffic Control learnt that it had suffered a tyre burst while taking off and asked it to return
A Srinagar-bound SpiceJet aircraft with 186 passengers on board landed under emergency conditions in New Delhi on Monday after Air Traffic Control learnt that it had suffered a tyre burst while taking off and asked it to return
Did you know that Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily also had a miraculous escape when his plane also veered off the runway in Mangalore and rolled down a cliff?
A Spicejet flight on Wednesday made a 'priority landing' in Kolkata after a burqa-clad passenger with a man-like physique aroused the suspicion of crew members on board.The Delhi-Kolkata-Dhaka Spicejet flight 208 with 123 passengers on board landed at the N S C Bose Airport in Kolkata around noon, after the pilot was given clearance by the Air Traffic Control to make a priority landing, airport sources said. The aircraft was immediately taken to an isolation bay.
The flight was diverted to the Jamnagar airport following a bomb threat and made a safe emergency landing there at 9.49 pm on Monday, officials had said.
A naval Islander aircraft force-landed at a paddy field at Piravom near Kochi on Friday while on a routine sortie. However, all the five people on board are safe.
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