‘ARMAVIA’ AIR COMPANY TO DIRECT A LETTER TO ICAO TO REVISE THE DISTANCE OF THE AIR SEPARATION OF AIRPLANES

ArmInfo
2009-01-14 00:52:00

ArmInfo. ‘Armavia’ air company will direct a letter to ICAO to revise
the distance of the air separation of airplanes, director of air
staff of Armavia Migran Khachatryan told journalists today. He also
added such a position of the company is conditioned by the discomfort
situation happened during Sochi-Yerevan flight implemented by A-320
airplane of Armavia on 11 January, when the airplane found itself
in the airscrew slipstream of the oncoming airplane A-380 which was
implementing Dubai-New-York flight. As a result of which the airplane
of the Armavia was tilted to the left on the angle 45 degrees. The
incident lasted for 18 seconds. Khachatryan said that the distance
between the airplanes was not less than the norm – 30 km horizontally
and 300 m vertically. ‘Earlier the minimally admissible vertical
distance was 600 m, but because of growing of the rate of fights
they had to reduce the distance. If the present standards do not pull
through such incidents, the standard distance should be increased’,
– Khachatryan concluded.