Webinfosys's Local News : Plane has a close shave in Bangalore

BANGALORE: About 150 passengers on board a Mumbai-Bangalore Kingfisher flight had a narrow escape when their descending craft suddenly veered back, pulled up into the skies with a sudden roar after the craft spotted another plane on the runway where it was to touch down.

The incident, which took place around 1.30 pm on Saturday in Bangalore, is an eerie replay of the Oct 19 near-miss when a pilot coming into Mumbai saw a craft on the same runway on which he was to land.

HR consultant Augustine Raj, who was on the Bangalore-bound Kingfisher flight (IT-105), said, "My heart started pounding fast and I could hear screams from co-passengers."

The aircraft was descending at about 200 kmph. When the pilot was bringing it to the landing level, he suddenly saw an aircraft on the runway and aborted the landing. Then he did a turnabout, started ascending very sharply with the engines roaring full thrust. After hovering for ten minutes, the pilot told the passengers on the public address system that he had to lift the aircraft back into the air because there was an aircraft taking off from the runway he was to land on. The badly shaken passengers landed safely 20 minutes later.

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