Flight lands on wrong runway at IGI, avoids major incident
New Delhi, Nov. 25 -- A major incident was avoided at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) on Sunday when an Ariana Afghan Airlines aircraft landed on a wrong runway.
According to officials aware of the incident, flight FG-311 from Kabul was given clearance by the IGI Air Traffic Control (ATC) to land on runway 29L, being used for landings. However, the aircraft landed on the new parallel runway - 29R - which was being used for take-offs.
The Airbus A310, however, landed safely since no take-offs were taking place at the time. An official said, "Luckily no aircraft was taking off at that time. Anything could have happened if there were a few seconds' difference here or there."
In statement, the captain claimed the accident occ...
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