New Delhi: A serious miscommunication between IGI airport's air traffic control (ATC) tower and Air India pilots on Tuesday morning saw some tense moments and led to a close shave for two aircrafts. An incoming flight was asked to go around after the safety distance area of the runway it was to land on was breached by another plane waiting to take off.
Around 10.15am, an IndiGo Airbus A-320 was on its final approach to Delhi. At the same time, an Air India Boeing-777 was taxiing to the runway to operate a special Haj flight to Srinagar.
While taxiing, the AI aircraft crossed the holding line of the runway on which the IndiGo aircraft was to land. Noticing this "runway incursion", the air traffic controllers asked the pilots of the IndiGo flight to abort landing and initiate a go-around maneuver. "We did what ATC asked us to do. Safety was not compromised," an IndiGo spokesperson said.
The directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) is probing the incident and will find out what led to the runway incursion-whether it was an error on the part or air traffic controllers or if the AI pilots failed to follow instructions.
14/10/15 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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Around 10.15am, an IndiGo Airbus A-320 was on its final approach to Delhi. At the same time, an Air India Boeing-777 was taxiing to the runway to operate a special Haj flight to Srinagar.
While taxiing, the AI aircraft crossed the holding line of the runway on which the IndiGo aircraft was to land. Noticing this "runway incursion", the air traffic controllers asked the pilots of the IndiGo flight to abort landing and initiate a go-around maneuver. "We did what ATC asked us to do. Safety was not compromised," an IndiGo spokesperson said.
The directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) is probing the incident and will find out what led to the runway incursion-whether it was an error on the part or air traffic controllers or if the AI pilots failed to follow instructions.
14/10/15 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
