On Sunday, a prompt move by an air traffic controller (ATC) helped a foreign airline’s plane from a grave calamity at Allama Iqbal International Airport.
The pilot of Gulf Air flight GF-764, which was flying from Bahrain to Lahore, attempted to land the passenger plane on a runway that was under construction, but ATC workers informed the pilot just in time and assisted him in landing on an alternate runway.
According to airport reports, the plane was less than 200 feet from the ground when the traffic controller intervened and told the pilot to abandon the landing right now.
The pilot conducted last-minute adjustments to reverse course and landed on the second runway, as instructed by ATC.
The pilot also praised the ATC’s work in preventing an accident at the Allama Iqbal International Airport.
Last year, a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight nearly avoided an accident while taking off when it collided with an international operator’s plane landing at Toronto Pearson Airport in Canada.
Without permission from airport administration, the national airline’s flight PK-787 entered a taxiway, a corridor along which airplanes can taxi when going to or from the runway.
At the same time, an Air Canada flight from Seoul arrived to land on the same runway as the PIA airline was getting ready to take off. Air traffic control intervened just in time to prevent a collision between the two planes.
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