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Air traffic controller suspended after planes almost collide at Mumbai Airport

Aerotime

Two planes narrowly avoided a collision on a runway at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (BOM). The incident occurred on June 8, 2024, when an IndiGo flight landed on the runway while an Air India flight was taking off. The IndiGo jet touched down three seconds after the lift off.

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Video captures Garuda Indonesia B747 engine catching fire after takeoff

Aerotime

Video clips shared by airline crash data evaluation company JACDEC on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) show that one of the aircraft’s four engines started emitting flames as the plane lifted from the runway. All 450 passengers and 18 crew members were evacuated safely.

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Hong Kong investigators release report on Atlas Air 747-400F hydraulic failure

Aerotime

The incident, which was categorized as serious by the Air Accident Investigation Authority (AAIA) , resulted in the closure of a runway at HKG for eight hours. There were four crew members and one passenger on board the cargo jet. The crew dumped fuel and made a PAN-PAN call, before the aircraft made an ILS approach back to runway 25R.

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Preflight Action - FAR 91.103

Northstar VFR

While the integrity of the aircraft is extremely vital to the flight, a vast majority of pilots overlook other tasks that should be a part of a good preflight. In §91.103, it states: Each pilot in command shall, before beginning a flight, become familiar with all available information concerning that flight. It states, “.other

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Moving On Up!

Plane and Pilot

This rating does require the pilot to log 50 hours of cross-country time as pilot in command (this is waived for Part 141 instruction). However, fly with a taildragger pilot and you will immediately notice the precision and coordination, especially during landings. Little tolerance for repeat lessons here.

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A Port for the Air

Photographic Logbook

The Port Meadville Airport features an immaculately paved 5,000 foot long runway, sells fuel appropriate to kerosene guzzlers and air knockers alike, a genuinely nice terminal building with a great view of the ramp, and even maintains the infrastructure for a radio based localizer instrument approach. Left base, runway 25, Port Meadville.

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What matters for VFR proficiency: better landings

Air Facts

But too much airspeed can lead to bounced landings if the pilot tries to force the airplane on the runway or a runway excursion if the airplane runs out of room before it runs out of speed. The left wing dropped and the airplane descended off the side of the runway, impacted terrain, and cartwheeled before coming to rest.”

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