A blame game has erupted over the aerial intrusion by a drone at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA).
While the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), the agency which is responsible for security at the airport, says the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Air Traffic Control are responsible for handling such suspicious activities, ATC officials said the CISF official did not take information on the drone seriously and did not act swiftly.
The IAF, on the other hand said the issue is still unresolved as it is uncertain what the object exactly was. Interestingly, all three agencies are clueless about the object.
"Initially, an IAF officer noticed some suspicious object flying in the perimeter of the IGIA and raised an alarm with ATC officials and other agency. Later after analying the object, the ATC suspected the unidentified object to be drone. Around 7.37 am on Tuesday, the Delhi Police, CISF and Intelligence Bureau was informed about the suspicious object but before anyone could understand what the flying object was, it vanished leaving officials in a tizzy," a senior government official told Mail Today.
29/10/15 Ankur Sharma/India Today
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While the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), the agency which is responsible for security at the airport, says the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Air Traffic Control are responsible for handling such suspicious activities, ATC officials said the CISF official did not take information on the drone seriously and did not act swiftly.
The IAF, on the other hand said the issue is still unresolved as it is uncertain what the object exactly was. Interestingly, all three agencies are clueless about the object.
"Initially, an IAF officer noticed some suspicious object flying in the perimeter of the IGIA and raised an alarm with ATC officials and other agency. Later after analying the object, the ATC suspected the unidentified object to be drone. Around 7.37 am on Tuesday, the Delhi Police, CISF and Intelligence Bureau was informed about the suspicious object but before anyone could understand what the flying object was, it vanished leaving officials in a tizzy," a senior government official told Mail Today.
29/10/15 Ankur Sharma/India Today
