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| Aviation tragedy averted at Jammu airport | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 30: Over a week after 158 people lost lives in the country's worst aviation tragedy at Mangalore, a possible tragedy was averted at the Jammu airport when an Indigo airlines plane failed in its first attempt to make a landing.
There were 123 passengers on board the plane, which was on its way from Srinagar to New Delhi with a halt at Jammu, according to official sources.
Sources said the plane was about to touch the runway at about 1.55 pm when it took off again with a jerk, panicking the passengers.
It, however, made a successful landing in the second attempt, the sources added.
Had the pilot not taken off the plane again and had it overshot the runway, it could have possibly been a big tragedy, sources said.
Indigo airlines manager Dev Prateen Choudhary said while the plane was about to land, Air Traffic Control (ATC) officials did not give the landing clearance as a result of which it had to take off again without touching the ground.
All the passengers were safe and the flight later left for Delhi, he added.
"There is nothing to worry about the incident as it happens when ATC cancels landing clearance at the last moment," Choudhary said.
Sources, however, said the plane failed in its first attempt to land because it had overflown the actual landing line.
Disputing the claim of Indigo airlines that ATC cancelled the clearance for landing at the last moment, an ATC official said, "We had given the clearance to the plane for landing."
A day before, a similar incident had occurred at the airport when an Indian Airlines flight had landed in poor visibility, putting lives of passengers at risk.
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