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• Photo Date: Aug 16, 2008
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• Bombay-Juhu - VAJJ, India

Scores of unruffled pigeons on an active main runway 08-26 ! Used by helicopters , light executive craft and gliders , 08-26 has been the centre of a few incidents i.e. 15 July 1953, a BOAC Comet mistook this rwy for CSIAs 09-27 and landed here. On 28 May 1968, the pilot of a Garuda Indonesia Convair 990 also mistook Juhu Aerodrome for Santacruz Airport and tried to land his aircraft. It overshot the runway falling just short of the traffic road ahead and several residential buildings when its nose wheel got stuck in a ditch at the end of the runway. All passengers survived. The most famous incident undoubtedly was on September 24, 1972 when a Japan Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-8 (JA8013)-Flight 472 en route to Bombay landed at Juhu Airport runway 08, instead of Bombay Airport runway 09. The aircraft overran the runway through a ditch due extremely poor visibility. there were no injuries reported, but the aircraft was written off.

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Both of Mumbai's airports visible in this stunning overview! Juhu (foreground - India's first civil airport) is home to general aviation and helicopter operations, while CSIA (background) is the city's main gateway

Sunandan Subramaniam VAJJ

6,371 5 1 Airport

Founded in 1928, Juhu Airport was the first civil aviation airport in India and served as the primary airport for Bombay till 1948, when ops were moved to the Santa Cruz Airport

Nitin Nair VAJJ

5,607 2 1 Airport

Overview of the Juhu Airport

vaibhav shah VAJJ

3,923 1 0 Airport

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getting ready for a flight !

Aneesh Bapaye VT-PHY

3,612 4 0 Aérospatiale SA 365N3 Dauphin 2

Janam Parikh VT-GVA

3,062 1 0 Bell 412EP

Janam Parikh VT-GVX

2,055 1 0 Bell 412EP

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Sean D Silva BH-1013

5,130 5 0 Hindustan Aeronautics HAL-748 Series 2

Sean D Silva Z-3373

5,750 3 0 Mil Mi-17-1V Hip

1000 on JETPHOTOS! Took some time coming :D It had to be my favourite bird roaring out of BOM on a hot summer day

Sean D Silva OH-LGC

7,250 7 2 McDonnell Douglas MD-11(F)