Airport staff fined for inaccurate landing order

4 traffic controllers at Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat International Airport have been fined for issuing an inaccurate landing order that could have caused a crash.

On October 10, an airplane from Taiwan should have landed on the right No.25 runway at Tan Son Nhat but the air traffic controllers mistakenly broadcasted “left No.25 runway” where some road workers were working.

The plane could have crashed into the workers. Luckily, another air traffic controller found the mistake and notified his colleagues which timely issued a correct order.

However, these 4 controllers later didn’t report the case to superiors according to regulations.

They were thus fined and had their licenses suspended for 3 months.

Last March, an airplane from GuangZhou China landed at Hanoi-based Noi Bai Airport met with a similar accident.

When the airplane prepared to land on the runway, the pilot found a car was driving underneath.

The pilot had to fly up again while the car, which was washing the runway, had to move out of the dangerous area.

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