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2009/02/11

Near Collision over India


Air India Airbus similar to the one in the near collision
See the large photo at Airliners.net
Contact Sreenath Yellamrazu - Indian Aviation Photographers


IAF Gajaraj IL 76 similar to the one in the near collision
See the large photo at Airliners.net
Contact Photographer Jonathan Derden

What: Air India's Airbus 320 Flight IC 206 en route from Dibrugarh via Jorhat to Kolkata
and an Indian Air Force transport IAF Gajaraj IL 76 en route to Dibrugarh at 19,000 feet flflying at a speed of 600 km per hour.
Where: over Jorhat in Upper Assam, around 300 km from Guwahati
When: Tuesday
Who: 43 passengers in the Airbus. The number aboard the Air Force plane was not disclosed.
Why: Pilot Joydeb Banerjee saw the air force plane about 300 feet away --Banerjee and co- pilot Neeraj Singha of IC 206 alerted the ATCs at Jorhat and Dibrugarh. The Airbus dived 2,000 feet just in time to save the lives of his 43 passengers. His airbus had taken off from Dibrugarh at 11.55 am.

An Airports Authority of India ATC officer stationed in the Mohanbari airport in Upper Assam was suspended for "apparent lack of co- ordination with the authorities in Jorhat".
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