Company offers to do techno-feasibility study of Mangalore Airport

Company offers to do techno-feasibility study of Mangalore Airport

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, May 25:  The tragic plane crash at Mangalore Airport could have been avoided if a proper techno-feasibility study of the airport had been done, said Panjak Vora, a techno-feasibility consultant of Mott Macdonald firm. Although the airport does not conform to the required standards, it fought a number of public interest litigations before it came into being. Divisional Director of Mott Macdonald Pankaj Vora has written to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for permission to do a techno-feasibility study of the Bajpe Airport. 

The key areas of the techno-feasibility study proposed are length of the runway, instructional landing, and two-cushion threshold for runways. Pointing out that error in landing was the major factor responsible for the Mangalore plane crash, he said that the pilot was unable to gauge the length of the runway. If the landing aircraft has technical problems, manual judgment is bound to go wrong, which leads to the plane overshooting the runway. A short runway just adds to the problem, he said. 

Vora also said that the company is associated with designing master plans for Delhi, Mumbai, and Sikkim airports and have been recently given the Solapur and Shirdi airports too.