NEW DELHI: Two SpiceJet pilots have been de-rostered after landing a Hyderabad-Belgaum flight on the wrong end of runway at the destination on Sunday. Top aviation authorities have taken a stern view of this lapse as the crew allegedly did not report this and operated the DASH8 Q400 back to Hyderabad. It was only when the Airports Authority of India (AAI) reported this “serious incident” that SpiceJet informed the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board (AAIB) about the same, say investigators probing it. However by then crucial cockpit voice recorder recording (CVR) at the time of this incident was gone as CVR records in a loop keeping only the last two hours of conversation in the flight deck, they add.
“Air traffic control had cleared SpiceJet DASH8 Q400 aircraft (VT-SQC) operating SG-3733 to land on runway 26 at Belgaum. However, the pilots landed on runway 08 (meaning, it touched down on the other end of the runway instead of the designated end),” said a senior official.
