After the inaugural flight of A-319 jet from Surat to Delhi, which was supposed to be on May 1, was grounded, the airbus of the Indian touched down at the Surat airport at 11 am on Sunday, making it the first commercial passenger aircraft to land in Surat.
This test flight, which had no passengers on board but Airports Authority of India officials and a flight crew, primarily aimed at testing radar and landing systems at airport. As reported earlier, the inaugural flight of jet from Surat was grounded due to operational and flight safety issues at airport as cited by Director General of Civil Aviation authorities. The ongoing construction activity on runway and at the passenger terminal was temporarily suspended for facilitating landing and take off. Airport Authority officials from Delhi took rounds of control tower and passenger terminal at Surat airport before re-embarking on the flight at 1.30 pm.
The airplane flying overhead citizens also excited some curious onlookers on the road to gaze at the sky. “We did some technical checking and familiarisation of the flight route to the pilots. They were briefed on take off and landing procedures to be followed. The test flight is a normal procedure followed in the course of action for starting any new airport and checking its equipments,’’ said Surat airport in-charge Ranvirsingh Rana.
Normal construction work and work on the runway lights will resume from Monday after the Director General of Civil Aviation instructed that the airport needs to be completed by May 6.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
This test flight, which had no passengers on board but Airports Authority of India officials and a flight crew, primarily aimed at testing radar and landing systems at airport. As reported earlier, the inaugural flight of jet from Surat was grounded due to operational and flight safety issues at airport as cited by Director General of Civil Aviation authorities. The ongoing construction activity on runway and at the passenger terminal was temporarily suspended for facilitating landing and take off. Airport Authority officials from Delhi took rounds of control tower and passenger terminal at Surat airport before re-embarking on the flight at 1.30 pm.
The airplane flying overhead citizens also excited some curious onlookers on the road to gaze at the sky. “We did some technical checking and familiarisation of the flight route to the pilots. They were briefed on take off and landing procedures to be followed. The test flight is a normal procedure followed in the course of action for starting any new airport and checking its equipments,’’ said Surat airport in-charge Ranvirsingh Rana.
Normal construction work and work on the runway lights will resume from Monday after the Director General of Civil Aviation instructed that the airport needs to be completed by May 6.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com