Capt Neil Roberts ambled slowly towards his aircraft 4R-AJL, a turboprop aircraft, sitting on Bay-5 in the Katunayake International Airport, Srilanka, waiting for departure on its scheduled flight UL-207. First Officer William had already gone to the aircraft and the aircraft was now boarding. The weather was clear with blue sky and there was no forecast for any adverse weather conditions enroute.

Capt Neil, boarded the aircraft, said hello to the chief cabin executive and entered the cockpit and positioned himself. First officer williams had already prepared the cockpit for departure.

With formal exchange of greetings, Capt.Neil called up ATC for Start up and taxi clearance.

ATC Colombo cleared UL207 to start up and cleared the aircraft to taxi out to the active runway 04, enter the runway and line up.

Capt UL207 taxiied to runway. Called up ATC

Tower UL207 Request ATC departure instructions

UL207 copy ATC