The airliner had to abruptly interrupt the final phase of its landing to avoid a collision with another, which was running on the runway of the airport in the Mexican capital, yesterday Saturday, recorded videos that were published on social media and social media sites. the airline to which the aircraft belongs.
“This is an event that we can not allow (…). “It’s a very worrying fact and we need to look into it,” said Deputy Transport Minister Rachel Jimenez Pons on Milenio, adding that the director of the air traffic control service, Victor Hernandez Sandoval, had resigned.
In two videos, broadcast by Mexican media, the passenger plane is depicted as, a few tens of meters before landing, it suddenly takes off again, while another aircraft – of the same company – continues its route.
Close call at Mexico’s AICM airport. A Volaris airliner was given the go to land while another airplane was ready to take off on the same runway. Fortunately the incoming pilot noticed it and aborted the landing. pic.twitter.com/xYn2y8MsJm
– David Wolf (@ DavidWolf777) May 9, 2022
“Thanks to the training of our pilots (…) no passengers and no crew members were in danger due to the problem reported to the AICM (the capital’s airport) on the night of May 7,” Enrique Beltranena said via Twitter. , the CEO of Volaris, the company that owned both aircraft involved.
The incident took place at Benito Juarez Airport, the busiest in Latin America, which served 36 million passengers in 2021.
Victor Hernandez Sandoval was tasked with redistributing the Mexican capital’s airspace to allow Mexico City’s two airports to operate, despite criticism from experts about the complexity of using two airports in one city. volumes, at an altitude of more than 2,200 meters.
The incident took place two 24 hours after the International Federation of Airline Pilot Associations (IFALPA) on Thursday referred to the problems faced by the crews after the reorganization of Mexican airspace to allow the operation of the second airport, Felipe Angeles.
IFALPA mainly stressed that the aircraft are now forced to wait a long time and are forced to land with little fuel.
Due to the saturation of Benito Juarez airport, the previous Mexican government had decided to build a new airport in Texcoco, a suburb of the capital.
But incumbent President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador canceled the plan, preferring to turn the former military base into a civilian airport, despite strong criticism from investors and political opponents.
In May 2021, the United States announced that it was downgrading Mexico’s aviation security rankings due to a lack of adequate control.
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