Refrain from landing with unstablised approach during adverse weather condition: DGCA

Team Udayavani, Jul 4, 2019, 11:04 AM IST

Mangaluru: “We have also instructed heads of flight Safety of the airlines to include in their safety briefings to pilots, an express instruction to refrain from landing with unstablised approach while expressing adverse weather conditions and initiate a ‘Go-around’,” said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in the backdrop of the Air India Express flight overshooting the taxiway at Mangaluru International Airport.

Taking the incident seriously and the recent incidents of aircraft’s veering off or overshooting runways due to heavy rains, the DGCA issued air safety guidelines to domestic airlines concerning operations during the monsoon season. The civil aviation regulator has advised airlines to refrain pilots from landing aircraft with “unstablised approach” while experiencing adverse weather conditions.

The regulator issued air safety guidelines to domestic airlines concerning operations during the monsoon season in which the DGCA advised the airlines to have a stabilised landing approach and deploy “sufficiently experienced crew” among other guidelines to be followed during the monsoon season.

An Air India Express flight with 183 passengers aboard had a narrow escape when the aircraft that arrived from Dubai veered off the taxiway after landing at the Mangaluru International Airport on June 30.

In its statement regarding the incident the airline said, “AI Express aircraft VT-AYA, operating IX 384, Dubai to Mangalore on June 30, after landing on runway 24 while vacating the runway to the right side went off the taxiway into soft ground.”