Indian aircraft aborted flight in full throttle

New Delhi: Passengers aboard an Indian flight to Chandigarh got a rude shock on Saturday afternoon when the pilot was forced to abort take-off while the plane was in full throttle. Reason: An Ariana Airlines aircraft scheduled to land on the same runway had reached Delhi.
Indian’s IC 864, scheduled for departure at 1.20 pm., was all but ready to lift off when the pilot suddenly applied the emergency brakes. If that was unnerving for the people on board, the next hour and 40 minutes — which they spent waiting for the aircraft to undergo a mandatory cooling-off period before it could take-off a second time — was no less annoying. The flight finally took off at 3 pm.
The sources indicated that the order to abort — which had come from Air Traffic Control (ATC) — had been issued not only because of the arrival of the Ariana Airlines flight but also because the Indian pilot had been unable to complete take-off as rapidly as it should have been done.
Airport sources said that there were at least four or five such incidents every month at Delhi and Mumbai airports. That’s no consolation to the passengers on IC 864 who not only got a bad scare but also wasted precious time.
13/05/06 Nandini R Iyer/Hindustan Times

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