Guwahati-bound Indigo flight ‘misapproaches' runway at LGBI Airport
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Guwahati: A Guwahati-bound IndiGo flight, 6E-187, from Dibrugarh on Sunday reportedly 'misapproached' the runway at LGBI Airport during its landing at around 3:40 pm and immediately took off again, before finally touching down safely 15-20 minutes later in its second attempt.
After hovering in the sky for about 15 to 20 minutes following the 'misapproached' first landing attempt, passengers said that the flight landed safely on the second attempt.
"Whenever the pilot feels there is some misapproach, he can take a go-around before making a second landing attempt," an IndiGo spokesperson said, referring to the Guwahati incident. The official, however, said that go-around was a 'routine' affair.
"It's a safe and a routine manoeuvre," the official said.
According to the IndiGo spokesperson, whenever the pilot experiences any disturbance during landing or feels it's not safe to land at the present situation, the pilot takes one go-around and then tries to land the plane again.
State cabinet minister Bimal Borah, who was among the passengers on the flight, said they panicked as it was a 'rough landing' in its first attempt.
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"The flight initially landed with just the rear wheels of the aircraft touching the runway. It was a very rough landing and immediately the pilot took off again. We were clueless and I asked the air hostess what happened. I was told it was a 'misapproach,'" Borah said.
The minister said he thought some other flight might have arrived on the runway and so their flight denied permission to land. "Our flight landed after around 20 minutes again and during that time it was probably hovering above the Guwahati sky," he said. Borah said the pilot had announced that the second attempt to land will be after 10 minutes. "Passengers panicked, but finally it was a safe landing," Borah said.
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