Air India, Indigo flights come face-to-face at Delhi airport, collision averted
7 April 2017 8:39 AM GMT
Air India was about to take off from runway 28 when the Air Traffic Controller asked the pilot to stop and come back to bay.
Without mentioning the word gross negligence in the second statement, the AAI provided a sequence of events that led to the woman passenger on IndiGo's Mumbai-Lucknow flight (6E-446) getting injured. Representational image
New Delhi: A near collision was averted today as an Air India and an IndiGo aircraft came face-to-face at IGI airport here.
Air India's Delhi-Goa AI156 was about to take off from runway 28 at 11.15 AM when the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) asked the pilot to stop and come back to bay, Air India sources said.
IndiGo's Ranchi-Delhi 6E398 landed on the same runway minutes later.
There were 122 passengers onboard the Air India plane. The Air India aircraft finally took off for Goa at 12.50 PM.
( Source : PTI )
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