Mumbai: The past one week has almost been a nightmare for the passengers and authorities at the Mumbai airport. There have been at least five near misses or technical problems in one week. The Turkish Airlines flight stuck in mud was towed away only after three days. The incident put the main runway of the Mumbai airport out of action for three days. During that time at least 18 flights...
08:34 AM, Sep 12, 2011
Mumbai: After remaining shut for four days, the main runway of the Mumbai airport was on Monday reopened after a team of engineers towed away a Turkish Airways' Airbus 340 aircraft, which got stuck in the mud when it skidded off the tarmac, airport officials said. "The Turkish Airways' plane TK-740 was towed away at 1:17 am," the airport spokesperson told, adding that the runway has been "handed over" to...
07:30 AM, Sep 05, 2011
Mumbai: The main runway of the Mumbai airport continued to remain closed on Sunday as a team of engineers failed to tow away Turkish Airways' Airbus 340 aircraft stuck in the mud. The main runway of one of India's busiest airports on Sunday remained shut for the third day in a row. Mumbai airport authorities claim that while the pathway to tow away this Turkish Airlines aircraft is ready, they...
11:12 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Mumbai: A Jet Airways international flight from Mumbai to Bahrain was on Sunday delayed by two hours after the airline's staff received an anonymous call claiming a bomb was on board. It turned out to be a hoax. The flight 9W 592 from Mumbai to Bahrain took off at 9:30 pm - two hours after its original departure time of 7:30 pm. After the bomb scare, security agencies including the...
10:58 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Mumbai: Mumbai airport's main runway remained shut 48 hours after a Turkish Airlines flight skid off the runway and got stuck in mud. Earlier there were reports that the runway will open by 8 am on Sunday morning, but that target could not be achieved and the deadline has been extended. Reports then said that the main runway is likely to remain shut till Sunday afternoon. However, the deadline has...
08:04 AM, Sep 04, 2011
Mumbai: A massive salvage operation is currently on at Mumbai Airport. More than 100 people are working round the clock to dislodge this Turkish Airlines' Airbus 340 aircraft that has been stuck in mud just off the main runway since it skid off the rapid exit taxiway on early Friday morning. But the aircraft hasn't moved an inch since. What's taking so long? The nose wheel and main landing gear...
09:07 PM, Sep 03, 2011
Mumbai: A SpiceJet plane with 137 passengers and crew from Bangalore landed under emergency conditions at the airport in Mumbai this afternoon following a technical problem. "The ATC declared full emergency at the Mumbai Airport for the SpiceJet flight SG 344 from Bangalore at 1215 hrs. The flight made a safe landing at 1221 hrs. All the 137 passengers were deplaned safely," an airport spokesperson said. The airline could not...
07:42 PM, Sep 03, 2011
Mumbai: The main runway of the international airport in Mumbai remained shut on Saturday morning as incessant rains hampered towing away of a Turkish Airline plane stuck in mud near the taxiway, officials said. Continuous rain in the airport area has made the ground near the main runway more slushy, preventing movement of equipment for towing away the stranded plane. Therefore, the main runway is likely to resume operations only...
10:57 AM, Sep 03, 2011
New Delhi: A major mishap was averted on Friday morning when a Turkish Airways flight veered off the taxiway after landing in Mumbai. The incident occurred at 4:13 am at Mumbai Airport's Rapid Exit Taxiway - N8. All 97 passengers on board Turkish Airways flight TK 720 are safe. The main runway of the Mumbai airport was closed and a probe has been ordered by the Directorate General of Civil...
07:34 AM, Sep 02, 2011
Mumbai: A disaster was averted at the Mumbai airport on Wednesday after an Air India flight landed under emergency conditions. The Jeddah-Mumbai flight had 260 passengers on board. All passengers disembarked safely, an Air India spokesperson said. Reports say that the flight developed a technical snag in its hydraulic control system, following which it made an emergency landing. (With additional information from PTI) ...
03:11 PM, Aug 31, 2011
Mumbai: TV and film producer Ekta Kapoor was on Sunday night detained at the Mumbai International Airport for alleged duty evasion, customs officials said. Ekta was intercepted by customs personnel when she was passing through the green channel after landing at the airport from Bangkok, they said. "She was found carrying personal goods for which she did not pay customs duty," said a customs official on the condition of anonymity....
09:26 AM, Aug 08, 2011
Mumbai: A Dubai-bound Emirates flight, with 202 people on board, landed under emergency conditions on Wednesday at the airport in Mumnai soon after take-off due to engine failure. "Following a crisis call from the Mumbai-Dubai Emirates flight (EK507), the air traffic control declared a full landing emergency at the airport at 1558 hours," a Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) spokesperson said. He said the aircraft with 202 passengers and crew...
05:09 PM, Jul 27, 2011
Mumbai: In the last few months, many celebrities have been caught at the Mumbai international airport with undeclared goods. While some carried branded goods like high-end purses, shoes and bags, others tried to walk through the green channel with undeclared jewellery. However, on Monday, it was the turn not of a celebrity, but of a 50-year-old NRI woman to be intercepted by the Mumbai Customs. She was carrying banned sex...
01:59 PM, Jul 19, 2011
Mumbai: The failure of the new software being tested at the Mumbai airport delayed only four flights on Sunday morning and the airport is now back to normal, Air Traffic Control officials said. "Four departures from Mumbai were delayed by 15-20 minutes and no arrivals were affected. The Auto Track III, the upgraded system went into "degraded mode of operation" from 3:10 am to 5am," Joint General Manager, Air Traffic...
03:00 PM, Jul 03, 2011
Mumbai: Around 30 flights at the Mumbai airport were cancelled early Thursday morning as the new Air Traffic Control software undergoing test run failed, airport officials said. The Auto Track-III software, the new upgraded software supplied by the US Defence contractor Raytheon failed between 3.15 am and 4.55 am, forcing the Auto Track-II to pull in the back-up system which helped avert major delays and threat to safety, they said....
11:59 AM, Jul 03, 2011
Mumbai: Actress Anushka Sharma was on Monday stopped at Mumbai airport for carrying undeclared dutiable items including jewellery, watches, customs sources said. The 23-year-old actress was returning from IIFA award ceremony in Toronto and landed at the airport at 2.30 pm from Toronto via Singapore. She was stopped while passing through the green channel, a Customs official said. While checking her baggage, the gold and diamond-studded jewellery worth between Rs...
04:16 PM, Jun 27, 2011
Mumbai: Mumbai Airport's traffic woes are set to ease up a bit with the new improved main runway set to start operations full time. Mumbai airport's biggest challenge, in what is the country's most congested airfield, is now complete. At an impressive 60 metres width, it is now ready for the world's largest aircraft - the Airbus 380 and Boeing 747-800. The runway flooding every monsoon leading to passenger delays...
08:37 AM, May 27, 2011
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Bipasha Basu was detained on Thursday at Mumbai airport for not declaring goods, but was let off after paying duty. Bipasha Basu was detained by Custom officials at the Mumbai international airport when she was returning from London. The actress was let off after she coughed up a tax of Rs 10,000, allegedly for carrying personal goods worth Rs 65,000. This comes, just a week after Minissha...
01:41 PM, May 26, 2011
Chicago: Day two of the 26/11 case hearing in Chicago saw more startling revelations by the prime witness David Coleman Headley, who revealed that there was a plot to kill Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray and that he had met former Shiv Sena PRO Rajaram Rege. Headley also testified that he was in constant touch with Major Iqbal of Pakistan's ISI and Lashkar's Sajid Mir. He said his handlers in...
07:50 AM, May 25, 2011
Chicago: Major Iqbal, the alleged ISI handler of David Coleman Headley, wanted to include Mumbai international airport in the list of targets in the 2008 terror attack, a court was told on Tuesday. In fact, Major Iqbal expressed his disappointment when Headley met him in Lahore in June 2008, five months before the attack after coming to know that the airport is not planned to be targetted. This formed part...
11:43 PM, May 24, 2011
