DGCA should not allow landings at Kozhikode airport during monsoons: air safety expert

A day after the crash of an Air India Categorical airplane, aviation security skilled Captain Ranganathan, who had earlier flagged considerations about Kozhikode airport runway, on Saturday stated regulator DGCA mustn’t permit touchdown of flights throughout monsoons on runway 10 on the aerodrome. The ill-fated airplane, coming from Dubai with 190 individuals, overshot the runway 10, went down 35 ft on a slope and broke into two items. The crash killed not less than 18 individuals, together with the flight’s two pilots, and scores had been injured.

“Demise attributable to an accident is one thing which occurs when you do not know however while you knew the hazard existed and also you had been warned about it and also you took no motion and an accident takes place, then it’s undoubtedly homicide,” Ranganathan instructed PTI.

In 2011, he had warned that flights touchdown on runway 10 in tailwind circumstances in rain on the Kozhikode airport endanger the lives of individuals onboard these flights.

On Saturday, he stated the Directorate Common of Civil Aviation (DGCA) ought to implement the right runway code for Kozhikode airport.

“No plane bigger than a 737 or a 320 needs to be permitted to land there. They need to not allow any touchdown throughout monsoons on runway 10. The DGCA ought to implement that every one airways ought to comply and do their monsoon coaching earlier than the monsoons what is named ALAR coaching they must do it with out failure,” he stated.

ALAR is Method and Touchdown Accident Discount.

In June 2011, Ranganathan flagged considerations in regards to the runway in a communication to then Civil Aviation Secretary Nasim Zaidi in June 2011.

Ranganathan was then a member of the operations group of the Civil Aviation Security Advisory Committee (CASAC).

“…despite the hazard if the crew settle for a touchdown in moist and tailwind circumstances, their idea of ALAR may be very poor,” he had stated within the communication.

The communication had come in opposition to the backdrop of an Air India Categorical plane crash at Mangalore airport in 2010. As many as 158 individuals had died within the crash.

“…all of the flights that land on Runway 10 within the tailwind circumstances in rain, are endangering the lives of all on board,” Ranganathan had stated.

With tailwind circumstances, the descent of an plane on the time of touchdown could be affected.

When requested whether or not he had obtained any reply or suggestions on his report, Ranganathan replied within the unfavorable.

Kozhikode airport in Kerala comes beneath the Airports Authority of India (AAI). The airport has a tabletop runway.

On claims in sure quarters that the touchdown gear of the Air India Categorical airplane won’t have been deployed on Friday, Ranganathan dominated out such a chance.

“If the touchdown gear was not deployed he would have stopped on the runway as a result of the friction would have been a lot if he landed on the stomach. The 737 design is that if your touchdown gear will not be deployed it is going to contact down on the engines. The friction attributable to the engines would have stopped the plane. So that may be a full misnomer,” he famous.

It was a Boeing 737 plane that was concerned within the crash.

On what may have gone improper, Ranganathan stated the pilot mustn’t have tried to land with sturdy tailwind.

“Throughout monsoons the winds are westerly and he ought to use solely runway 28. The temptation to make use of runway 10 is barely as a result of the minima is decrease and you’ll come under the clouds whereas for runway 28, he in all probability encountered clouds and he couldn’t see the runway.

“…if you’re very drained the tendency is to attempt to land. He should have tried to finish the flight as early as attainable since you can not make greater than two makes an attempt,” he stated.

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