Another air mishap averted, Mumbai ATC goes blind

Last Updated: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 23:06

For 21 minutes on June 15, the Air Traffic Control at the Mumbai airport lost all contact with 19 aircraft either in the air or readying for take-off after a power cable got snapped during digging near the runway.

Taping pilot-ATC conversations a hobby, says detained Britons

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 20:32

A hobby has proved costly for two British nationals detained at a posh hotel near the airport here for allegedly recording conversations between aircraft pilots and the Air Traffic Control (ATC).

Air traffic controllers blamed for system crash at IGI

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 21:29

Airports Authority officers on Tuesday blamed the air traffic controllers for not following the correct procedure to update radar automation system at the IGI airport that led to its crash last week.

Mumbai near-miss: Prez copter landed without ATC clearance

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 17:46

An experts committee, which probed the near-miss incident between a Presidential helicopter and an AI plane at Mumbai this February, has found that an IAF chopper of the VVIP entourage landed on the runway making a short circuit.