Mumbai-bound Singapore flight averts landing at wrong airport, airline denies incident 

However, the airline has refuted the ATC’s charge and said the pilot was forced to discontinue the approach to landing due to “poor” visibility. “Singapore Airlines flight SQ422, operating from Singapore to Mumbai on December 4, was scheduled to land on runway 09 at CSIA at 1035 hrs. Due to poor visibility conditions, the crew discontinued the approach to runway 09 at approximately 1,000 feet, in accordance with standard operating procedures,” the airline said.

“The ATC Mumbai then vectored the flight for a subsequent approach onto runway 09 and the flight landed uneventfully at 1044 hours. At no time did the pilots of SQ 422 mistake Juhu airport as Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport,” it said.

The ATC source added that the SIA flight was asked to do a go-around as the passenger aircraft was seen “moving towards Juhu airport runway.” The flight eventually landed at the assigned runway nine minutes behind the scheduled time.

With PTI inputs