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| Road over runway to feature in Boeings $100M MRO work |
| Reference : - Shishir Arya | TNN (The Times of India, Nagpur) |
| Reference Date : - 05 May, 2011 |
Nagpur: The Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC) has come up with a solution to help aircraft maker Boeing speed up work on its 100 million dollar maintenances repairs and overhaul (MRO) depot at Mihan
There were apprehensions that even as the MRO would be ready, the aircraft may not be able to reach there for lack of a taxiway. The MADC has finally come up with a plan to have one, which is also likely to be first of its kind in the country.
MADC has now planned to build over a kilometer long taxiway leading to the MRO which would also have bridge over it for the road traffic to pass. MADC was facing a peculiar situation as it hard earlier planned to have a taxiway starting from the new proposed runway passing through the shivangaon village . Work on the new runway or taxiway could not take off this village is yet to be acquired. Its residents are opposing the takeover.
The taxiway is likely to be built at a cost of Rs 45 crore. Under the existing plan, both second runway and taxiway would require more than Rs 200 crore.
MADC officials now plan to utilize an old unused runway that crosses the existing airstrip under its use. It has been planned to use a part of this runway as taxiway and extend it further up to the MRO site. There is a road on the new taxiway’s path, .currently being used by the local residents. To overcome this, a bride a planned to be made over the road which would be used by regular commuters and the passing from the below, Said a MADC official, familiar with the issue.
However, expert feel that even as it may appears to be a grandiose plan on the face of it, several safety aspects will have to be considered by the directorate general of civil aviation before approving such a plan.
The new taxiway would also have long turns apart from the bridge. The old runway intersect the current airstrip and one of its one ends faces the Boeing the site from which side it could be extent , said the source. Even as such a taxiway are there abroad, it is not heard of in India, say those engaged in airport building .
An official note-sheet on this has been put forward at the MADC headquarters for a formal approval. If it is approved, the MRO need not mean that second runway plan has been dumped. It would be certainly needed once the project expands, said an official in the MADC.
A part of new proposed taxiway will also pass through the land earmarked for the second runway, but that patch is already with MADC, said the source.
“A decision should be taken fast and it should not be held up like other matters which are still pending after sinha’s predecessor,” said sources.
Meanwhile, Boeing has started work on the MRO projects. Preliminary surveys began in January. However, lack of approach had remained a cause for concern.
President of Boeing India Dinesh Keskar said that the company found that idea good and all it needed was a taxiway for the aircraft to travel to from to from the depot. A runway is needed only in the case of an airline service and for MRO, he said.
“To have a second runway or not it is MADC ‘s choice Boeing would be happy with a taxiway even if it is longer than what was planned earlier,” said Keskar. The company has started work and would soon announce plans during Keska’s visit to Nagpur.
The MADC will have to build a second runway as it is also a requirement for the India Air Force (IAF), which has it IL-76base near Mihan.
MADC will take the IAF land which is in patches and shift base to a single large plot. However, the IFA will shift only when the second runway is built. Until the IFA moves, MADC will not get possession of 278 hectares of land. The Mihan master plan has been made keeping the IFA land in consideration. |
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