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Mystery plane gives jitters to international airliners near Mumbai
Saurabh Sinha,TNN | Sep 7, 2014, 01.59 AM IST
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An Etihad aircraft had its collision alarm going off loudly in the cockpit, some 450km from Mumbai, warning that an unidentified plane was just 500ft away.
NEW DELHI: India's dangerous western neighbourhood that is kept under aerial surveillance by military planes of global superpowers gave the jitters to some international commercial flights flying over the Arabian Sea about 450 to 480km from Mumbai's coastline early on Saturday morning.

An Etihad aircraft winging its way from Abu Dhabi to the Far East had its traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) alarm going off loudly in the cockpit at 6.54am (IST), indicating that another aircraft had got dangerously close to it by breaching the minimum 1,000 feet of vertical separation that has to be maintained for safety.

Some other international airlines flying near Mumbai on Saturday morning also reportedly had their TCAS buzzing. The warning came when the aircraft — not originating from or destined for Mumbai — were on aerial route P-574 between the reporting points Bodik and Adpap over the Arabian Sea and flying at 36,500 feet, said sources.

"The indication Etihad aircraft got was of an unidentified plane flying just 500 feet below it. It immediately reported this to the Mumbai air traffic control (ATC), which had no such plane on its radar nor had any information of another aircraft being supposed to be so close below the Etihad flight," said a senior official.

Luckily for Etihad and other airliners which had their collision alarms ringing, said sources, the breach of vertical separation (500 feet) was not serious enough to lead to the triggering off of their "resolutionary advisory" in which an automatic message is generated for pilots to immediately change course to avoid collision.

The Mumbai ATC have reported the matter to the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA), which is now investigating this case as the credentials of the unidentified plane are unlikely to be ever known.


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However, sources said the unidentified plane could have belonged to the US Air Force, and it was not on any civil or military radar. The US uses the Diego Garcia islands in the south Indian Ocean as its air force base for keeping an eye on India's troubled western neighborhood. Reconnaissance missions and military exercises are mounted from these islands, they said.

"Military and government planes on sensitive or classified missions like reconnaissance do not file their flight plans with ATCs of the regions they will be flying over. Such planes fly with 'due regard' to civil air traffic using visual flight rules, which basically mean they just see and fly," said sources. But breaches of the 'minimum distance for vertical separation' in areas swarming with such aircraft can be a hazard for commercial traffic.

Since the warning came from planes flying at 36,500 feet, chances are the unidentified aircraft was on a reconnaissance flight as fighter jets don't fly that high.
 
UFO ...I mean weather balloon, cough cough please carry on the selling of tickets nothing to watch here

Perhaps a "Stealth" plane running missions to dock and load up the plane with Special Ops units like in Video games ? hmmmm practice run

But why against Airline in Indian Airspace very suspecious

Luckily we don't have any stealth planes so we can sleep happily on this one

Why would a plane fly just below or over a Passenger Jet Liner hmmm

Could make a great Hollywood movie
 
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This is dangerous. Already this year we have had too many aircraft crashes and incidents. The authorities should take a serious look at this
 
Inability of our Radar systems once again revealed.



THANK YOU. You are the only person who noticed this fatal flaw. No wonder Sri Lanka was complaining about it.


Privatization of our defence forces is the only solution. It will bring out the best....PSUs are notorious for BS work..
 
Inability of our Radar systems once again revealed.
THANK YOU. You are the only person who noticed this fatal flaw. No wonder Sri Lanka was complaining about it.


Privatization of our defence forces is the only solution. It will bring out the best....PSUs are notorious for BS work..

Please read about active & passive radar system

By the civilian control tower uses passive radar

Which doesn't show military aircraft if the transponder is switched off
 
America! ! ! Go back to Iraq, you have more to do there than flying your birds in our sky!
 
Please read about active & passive radar system

By the civilian control tower uses passive radar

Which doesn't show military aircraft if the transponder is switched off


I know what are civilian radars and their capability but why aren't there active military radars on our coastlines? Why wouldn't they step in to notify the Aviation authorities what it was?
 
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Please read about active & passive radar system

By the civilian control tower uses passive radar

Which doesn't show military aircraft if the transponder is switched off

Please read about active & passive radar system

By the civilian control tower uses passive radar

Which doesn't show military aircraft if the transponder is switched off

I am talking about military radar along the coastlines.
 
Now, lets hear those Indians who never stop talking about OBL raid......which happened in middle of night using cutting edge technologies.
 
Now, lets hear those Indians who never stop talking about OBL raid......which happened in middle of night using cutting edge technologies.
An Etihad aircraft had its collision alarm going off loudly in the cockpit, some 450km from Mumbai, warning that an unidentified plane was just 500ft away.
It wasn't flying in the Indian Airspace,which wasn't the case during the OBL mission.

I am talking about military radar along the coastlines.
It was 450kms of our coastline ,i guess. And perhaps it wasn't made public even if it was detected on military radar for some reasons unkown.
 

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