Air India A310 and Jet Airways B738 at Mumbai, simultaneous takeoff

[NM]

on May 31st 2009 as reported at The Aviation Herald.

An Air India Airbus A310-300, flight AI-348 from Mumbai to Delhi (India) with 104 passengers and further on to Shanghai (China), was waiting for takeoff clearance on runway 27.

A Jet Airways Boeing 737-800, flight 9W-615 from Mumbai to Kolkatta (India) with 120 passengers, was waiting for takeoff clearance on runway 14.

Only the Jet Airways Boeing received takeoff clearance, however both aircraft started their takeoff runs simultaneously at around 07:54 local (02:24Z). A controller in the tower recognized the conflict and ordered the Air India Airbus to stop. Both aircraft rejected their takeoff.

Seems to be some argument about whether or not the Air India flight was granted clearance for take-off. Air India says they did, Jet Airways says they did not, and ATC is not saying anything (yet).

 

[samh004]

Quite dangerous seeing as they intersect :shock:

On parallel runways, can planes take off at the same time, or is the norm to stagger things?

 

[NM]

On parallel runways, can planes take off at the same time, or is the norm to stagger things?

It depends on how close the runways are. Generally there is some separation between movements.

 

[albatross710]

on May 31st 2009 as reported at The Aviation Herald.

Seems to be some argument about whether or not the Air India flight was granted clearance for take-off. Air India says they did, Jet Airways says they did not, and ATC is not saying anything (yet).

Seems to be a simple case of listening to the ATC tapes.

Do they have air safety investigations in India?

 

[NM]

Seems to be a simple case of listening to the ATC tapes.

Do they have air safety investigations in India?

indeed it should not be too hard to determine what went wrong ... so long as someone is determine to find out.

 

[serfty]

Quite dangerous seeing as they intersect :shock:

On parallel runways, can planes take off at the same time, or is the norm to stagger things?

It depends on how close the runways are. Generally there is some separation between movements.

I have seen this in the US several times, DFW comes readily to mind ... landing as well ...

 

[oz_mark]

The tricky ones are when the two runways are operating in opposite directions!

 

[Soundguy]

I have seen this in the US several times, DFW comes readily to mind ... landing as well ...

Yeah, landed in SFO on an AA flight at the exact same time as another flight on a parallel runway, didn't look too far away. Many of the passengers were a bit freaked so I assumed this was unusual..... but maybe not?

Anyway, no harm done. Trying to use the same runway is significantly more problematic.

 

[djfuzz]

Isn't this basically what led to the Tenerife disaster? Surely all involved should have had proper takeoff procedure drilled into their heads laminated nowadays?

 

[NM]

Isn't this basically what led to the Tenerife disaster? Surely all involved should have had proper takeoff procedure drilled into their heads laminated nowadays?

Quite a different situation. There was only one runway there. And in the fog, one aircraft was taxiing along the end of the runway to turn around when another rolled for take-off. Confusion about ATC instructions was a common link.

 

[serfty]

Isn't this basically what led to the Tenerife disaster? Surely all involved should have had proper takeoff procedure drilled into their heads laminated nowadays?

Quite a different situation. There was only one runway there. And in the fog, one aircraft was taxiing along the end of the runway to turn around when another rolled for take-off. Confusion about ATC instructions was a common link.

... and they had been heading in opposite directions on the same runway.

More here: Tenerife airport disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia