Two passenger plane nearly crashed into each other on Saturday, May 7 at Mexico City International Airport. Air traffic control at MEX deleted one Airbus The A320 will land on the same runway where another Airbus A320 is awaiting clearance for take-off. In a video posted to Twitter, we see the incoming plane flying right above the plane waiting to take off. A difference of a few seconds can be catastrophic. Both planes belonged to the aircraft carrier Volaris, which said it was investigating the “go-around” incident.
Aviation online goes into full detail regarding the incident, tracking incoming and outgoing flights (link in spanish). Because Authority to solveThe Airbus A320neo can accommodate up to 194 passengers, while the standard A320 can accommodate up to 186. The Mexican government is currently investigating the incident, per El Universal (link in spanish). But the air traffic control tower overseeing the impending disaster is not the only party to blame. The director of Mexico’s federal airspace department (SENEAM) has now resigned, as this is not the first such incident at a Mexican airport, as in Spanish. Report of El Pais.
The incident occurred when public opinion expressed displeasure with some federal transportation agencies and the administration of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (known as AMLO), whose initiatives to reform the country’s transportation have come under criticism and scrutiny for the necessary infrastructure changes.
The airspace over Mexico City has been redesigned – by the recently resigned director of SENEAM – to accommodate a new airport requested by AMLO, Felipe Ángeles International Airport. The new airport was supposed to operate parallel to the existing Mexico City airport, but its operations have not been successfully expanded and the new airport is being accused of causing disturbances in the city’s airspace.
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Reuters Report teething problems at Felipe Ángeles Airport (AIFA), and it’s going smoothly. Once inaugurated, the international airport has a single scheduled flight. Issues at the airport involved air traffic coordination in shared airspace, which has proven difficult under AFP:
Experts have previously highlighted the challenges of operating two airports in a city surrounded by mountains and at more than 2,200 meters (about 7,300 feet) above sea level.
Airlines have so far operated only a small number of daily flights from Felipe Angeles International Airport, a flagship project of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to be built at a military airbase. north of the capital.
To date, 17 near-ground incidents have been recorded, along with other safety issues, all within the short time since the new airport opened in April 2022. The idea of a second air hub could be a good idea given the 50 million travelers who passed through the city’s airport in 2019, the execution and planning behind AMLO’s airport was not good. . Here’s hoping they at least figure out how to limit their runways to one aircraft at a time.
