{"id":494834,"date":"2022-05-31T09:05:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T03:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=494834"},"modified":"2022-05-31T09:40:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T04:10:02","slug":"atc-suspended-for-okaying-indigo-flights-that-came-too-close-post-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/atc-suspended-for-okaying-indigo-flights-that-came-too-close-post-take-off\/","title":{"rendered":"ATC suspended for okaying IndiGo flights that came too close post take off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA has suspended an air traffic controller for three months for approving simultaneous departures of IndiGo flights at the Bengaluru airport on January 7 that led to them coming too close just after take off.<\/p>\n<p>The two IndiGo flights &#8212; 6E455 (Bengaluru to Kolkata) and 6E246 (Bengaluru to Bhubaneswar) &#8212; averted a mid-air collision over the Bengaluru airport just after their simultaneous take off from north runway and south runway, respectively, on January 7 morning.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was called &#8220;breach of separation&#8221;, which happens when two aircraft cross the minimum mandatory vertical or horizontal distance in the airspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA has suspended an air traffic controller for three months for approving simultaneous departures of IndiGo flights at the Bengaluru airport on January 7 that led to them coming too close just after take off. The two IndiGo flights &#8212; 6E455 (Bengaluru to Kolkata) and 6E246 (Bengaluru to Bhubaneswar) &#8212; averted a mid-air collision over the Bengaluru airport just after their simultaneous take off from north runway and south runway, respectively, on January 7 morning. The incident was called &#8220;breach of separation&#8221;, which happens when two aircraft cross the minimum mandatory vertical or horizontal distance in the airspace.<\/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-494834","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\/494834","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=494834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}