Woman Pilot Who Saved 261 Lives

Air India Pilot Captain Anupama Kohli has shown great presence of mind on 7th February, 2017 when AI’s Airbus A-319 was enroute from Mumbai to Bhopal as AI 631 and Vistara’s A-320 Neo was flying from Delhi to Pune as UK 997. “The planes had been barely seconds away from one another. This women a senior commander of A-320 family with experience of over 20 years — saved the day.

 Air visitors controllers dealing with the Vistara and Air India flights that got here dangerously shut in Mumbai airspace final Wednesday  have been suspended. Investigators are probing if in these tense seconds — when the 2 planes with 261 passengers on them — needed to be pulled aside, there was some confusion within the controller’s coordination with the 2 cockpits which had been each manned by girls at that moment.

Vistara was descending from its assigned stage of 29,000 ft to 27,100 ft the place an AI flight was coming in the wrong way. There could have been confusion between the ATC and Vistara cockpit — which at that moment had a girl co-pilot on the controls and the captain had taken a bathroom break. 

Amid this confusion, AI’s Captain Anupama Kohli — a senior commander of A-320 household with expertise of over 20 years — saved the day. “She noticed the Vistara plane approaching in her path and will hear the ATC asking UK 997 ‘why are you on this stage?’ The Vistara girl pilot instructed ATC that ‘no, you instructed me to come back to this stage’.

Luckily AI went up and Vistara came down, to be 600 feet away from each other and then flew away safely “clear of conflict”.

AI has applauded the presence of thoughts proven by Captain Anupama Kohli. Vistara didn’t touch upon the difficulty because the matter is being investigated, whereas sustaining its crew operated precisely as per guidelines with none violation. Airline sources say its crew was requested to be at 27,000 ft and that’s the reason they had been there.