Aizawl, Jun 06: Were the airport authorities here taking a big risk in clearing the touchdown of an Air-India aircraft despite a key equipment required during landing not functional?
An Air-India Kolkata-Aizawl flight today landed at the Lengpui airport, which has one of the three table-top runways, with 145 passengers onboard after failing to do so for past three days due to inclement weather and that too when the VOR (Very High Frequency Omni-Directional Range) equipment was out of order, U K Ghosh, senior manager, Airports Authority of India, told PTI.
The landing come just weeks after the Mangalore air crash that claimed 158 lives and some mid-air scares in the recent past.
The IC-211 landed here at 4 pm and though the weather was good today, the landing took place in the absence of the VOR instrument, which was out of order, he said.
–Agencies