LUCKNOW AIRPORT GOOF-UP UNPARDONABLE

Accident averted ? Recent incidents at the Lucknow Airport deserve severe condemnation. This kind of reckless ness is just not to be allowed. The Times of India, today ( Lucknow edition ) reports: "As per reports, the Indigo flight (6E-342) from Mumbai was about to land at Amausi airport at around 4.30 pm when it pilot spotted a descending chopper. It was a UP government chopper (VT-UPL), reportedly carrying four state government officials, including a senior bureaucrat, who were arriving from New Delhi. According to data collected from the voice recorder of the chopper, the pilot did spot the arriving aircraft from the opposite direction. Airport sources said that the chopper was therefore asked to fly and align itself in a way that it landed behind the aircraft. But by then the aircraft pilot had apprehended the chopper to be too close and decided to abort the landing" "Earlier this year, an aircraft carrying senior Congress leaders, Jairam Ramesh and Pramod Tewari, reportedly had a close shave with another aircraft of Saudi Airlines at Amausi Airport. The chartered aircraft with top Congress leaders took a sudden elevation, even as it came close to a waiting aircraft of Saudi Airlines which was about to take off." Enquiry has been ordered but it should follow with an Action Taken Report then only the outcome of enquiry can be fructified.