INTERSECTING RUNWAYS REMAIN A CHALLENGE FOR MUMBAI’S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
January 1st, 2011
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
May 31, 2009, a quiet Sunday morning at Mumbai's ChhatrapatiShivaji International Airport: Air India flight 348 to New Delhi and Jet Airways 651 to Calcutta had accelerated on their runways to 180 km per hour when just seconds before take-off they made emergency stops. It was a lucky escape for 250 passengers, as both planes - an Airbus 310 and a Boeing 737 - were converging at the centre of the airport's diagonal runways.
Meanwhile, on February 9, 2009, an Mi-8 Indian air force helicopter in the convoy of the President of India made an ...
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