Created Wednesday, Feb 28th 2024 19:12Z, last updated Wednesday, Feb 28th 2024 19:12Z
An Air Astana Airbus A320-200N, registration EI-KBP performing flight
KC-7858 from Mumbai (India) to Almaty (Kazakhstan), was taxiing for departure and had been instructed to turn onto taxiway E but turned erroneously onto taxiway N1 and taxied across the hold short line runway 14/32.
An Air India Airbus A319-100 registration VT-SCR performing flight AI-969 from Mumbai (India) to Doha (Qatar), was accelerating for takeoff from runway 32 at that moment and rejected takeoff at low speed. The aircraft returned to the apron and departed from runway 27 about 100 minutes later.
The A20N taxied to the hold short line of runway 32 subsequently via taxiways W, Q, S, S1 and E1, departed about 25 minutes after the runway incursion and reached Almaty without further incident.
India's DGCA reported they have opened an investigation into the occurrence.
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