At Mumbai airport, an IndiGo plane landed on the same runway from which an Air India plane had just taken off, narrowly avoiding a collision. The two aircraft were just 509 meters apart at one point, with hundreds of passengers onboard. Both crews had received permission from the dispatcher, one to take off and the other to land. Indian aviation authorities have begun an investigation into the close-shave incident, and the ATC staff involved have been derostered by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
Two planes at Mumbai’s airport ended up mere moments away from disaster in a mix up that saw one plane land on a runway while another was still taking off https://t.co/PDgkgdOzjy
#MumbaiAirportShock: #IndiGo lands while #AirIndia takes off, here's what went wrong https://t.co/dUy7Gqff5x
DGCA acts on Mumbai Airport incident ATC staff have been derostered following a close-shave incident at Mumbai airport, where an IndiGo flight landed while an Air India flight took off on the same runway. @AnkitPrasad shares more details with @prathibhatweets https://t.co/UUUeNKMDWD
Terrifying moment plane lands just metres behind another in heart-stopping near-miss https://t.co/bSvySnPeDc https://t.co/ZWB4hSzskr
🇮🇳At Mumbai airport, the plane landed on the runway from which another flight was taking off. They avoided a collision. Both crews received permission from the dispatcher:one plane to take off, and second to land. Indian aviation authorities have begun an investigation into the… https://t.co/gjvoz2ibI3
This data - from @flightradar24 reveals that the two aircraft that had a close call in Mumbai - as one landed and one took off - were just 509 metres from one another at one point. There were hundreds onboard the IndiGo and Air India aircraft. There was nothing ordinary about… https://t.co/DEx4Bgj6In
At Mumbai airport, an IndiGo plane landed on the same runway from which an Air India plane had just taken off. Miraculously, they managed to avoid a collision. https://t.co/x2WVT6Zjy0
Heart-stopping moment plane lands on runway just feet behind another jet as it takes off from Mumbai airport https://t.co/QYhPN1tifP https://t.co/LZ6uQBXWtx
Passenger recounts ‘crying and screaming’ during emergency landing https://t.co/8jBRpS0tu2 https://t.co/5njoslLzot
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