India, Nov. 25 -- An Ariana Aghan flight on Sunday touched down on the wrong runway at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport creating a dangerous situation.
Flight FG-311, an Airbus A310 arriving from Kabul, had been cleared by Air Traffic Control (ATC) to land on runway 29L, which was in use for all arrivals at the time. The parallel runway, 29R, was being used exclusively for departures. Despite the instructions, the aircraft aligned with and landed on 29R, creating a situation that could have interfered with outgoing traffic, an official from ATC has confirmed to The Pioneer.
Delhi airport, which handles over 1,200 flights per day, operates four runways, including the recently commissioned 29R/11L. The Directorate General of Civi...