Two IndiGo planes avert mid-air collision over Bengaluru airport.
Two IndiGo planes averted a mid-air collision over the Bengaluru airport just after their take-off on the morning of January 9, senior officials of aviation regulator DGCA said.
Officials of Directorate General of Civil Aviation said that two IndiGo planes (flight #6E455 from Bengaluru to Kolkata and flight #6E246 from Bengaluru to Bhubaneswar) were involved in ‘breach of separation’ at Bengaluru airport.
Breach of separation happens when two aircraft cross the minimum mandatory vertical or horizontal distance in an airspace.
Both these aircraft departed from the Bengaluru airport within a span of approximately 5 minutes on the morning of January 9, the officials mentioned.
“Both aircraft after departure were on converging heading i.e. moving towards each other. Approach radar controller gave diverging heading and avoided mid-air collision,” one of the officials noted.