{"id":431872,"date":"2021-08-25T08:34:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T03:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431872"},"modified":"2021-08-25T09:16:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T03:46:53","slug":"airasia-indigo-flights-came-as-close-as-8-km-on-jan-29-probe-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airasia-indigo-flights-came-as-close-as-8-km-on-jan-29-probe-report\/","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia, IndiGo flights came as close as 8 km on Jan 29: Probe report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AirAsia India&#8217;s Ahmedabad-Chennai flight and IndiGo&#8217;s Bengaluru-Vadodara flight came within 8 km of each other with 300 ft vertical separation between them over Mumbai airspace on January 29, according to an Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) report.<\/p>\n<p>The probable cause for this &#8220;serious incident&#8221; was the air traffic controller&#8217;s &#8220;loss of situational awareness&#8221;, the report released earlier this month said. <\/p>\n<p>Another probable cause was that the situation was evaluated by the controller at the Mumbai airport &#8220;under the influence of preconceived mind&#8221;, it said. <\/p>\n<p>Explaining the incident, the report said that most of the flights that go from Ahmedabad to southern India overfly Bhavnagar. However, on January 29, the AirAsia India flight was on a route that is usually taken by planes descending to land at the Mumbai airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AirAsia India&#8217;s Ahmedabad-Chennai flight and IndiGo&#8217;s Bengaluru-Vadodara flight came within 8 km of each other with 300 ft vertical separation between them over Mumbai airspace on January 29, according to an Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) report. The probable cause for this &#8220;serious incident&#8221; was the air traffic controller&#8217;s &#8220;loss of situational awareness&#8221;, the report released earlier this month said. Another probable cause was that the situation was evaluated by the controller at the Mumbai airport &#8220;under the influence of preconceived mind&#8221;, it said. Explaining the incident, the report said that most of the flights that go from Ahmedabad to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}