Mid-air collision averted

Just two days after the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued a directive to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to earmark one runway for landing and the another for take off, a collision between two aircrafts -- IndiGo flight to Goa and Qatar Airways flight to Doha was averted at the Indira Gandhi International Airport at Delhi.
Both the aircrafts reportedly took off simultaneously in the same direction at the IGI Airport on Wednesday (Dec 19). The incident occurred at 5.30 pm when an IndiGo flight to Goa and a Qatar Airways flight to Doha took off from the two runways of the airport within 30 seconds of each other. However, after the Air Traffic Control (ATC) alerted the aircraft, the IndiGo plane turned left, leaving the Qatar aircraft free to fly straight, thereby averting a major collision.
20/12/07 Times Now.tv

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Categories: Airports Dec 2007, Foreign Dec 2007, Indigo Airlines Dec 2007, Safety Dec 2007