Near miss at Mumbai airport – close shave for 220
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Momentsaway from disaster, the two pilots were alerted to the danger and the aircraftscreeched to a halt a couple hundred metres apart.
Airportsources said the Kolkata-bound Jet Airways flight carrying 120 passengers gotcleared for take-off at 7.56 am from cross runway 14. Within moments, theMumbai-Delhi-Shanghai Air Indiaflight with 119 passengers started moving along the main runway.
“Whenthe Jet pilot reached close to the intersecting point between the runways, heheard the ATC asking the Air India pilot to stop. Both the pilots, who wereabout to exert full throttle for take-off, applied the brakes and came to ascreeching halt,” said an airport official who requested anonymity.
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