New Delhi:
A car belonging to Go First airline went under an IndiGo A320neo aircraft at the Delhi airport today, narrowly avoiding a collision with the plane’s nose wheel. The incident was caught on camera.
The incident happened at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation or DGCA – the civil aviation body – will investigate this incident, its officials have said.
The car narrowly missed the IndiGo plane’s nose wheel and there was no damage to the plane, aviation industry sources told Press Trust of India.
The aircraft, at Delhi airport, was readying to depart for Dhaka this morning when a car belonging to Go First airline went under it, narrowly avoiding a collision. News agency ANI reported that it was a Delhi-Patna flight.
#WATCH | A Go Ground Maruti vehicle stopped under the nose area of the Indigo aircraft VT-ITJ that was parked at Terminal T-2 IGI airport, Delhi. It was an Indigo flight 6E-2022 (Delhi–Patna) pic.twitter.com/dxhFWwb5MK
— ANI (@ANI) August 2, 2022
Both IndiGo and Go First did not respond to Press Trust of India’s request for statements on this incident.
(Video tweeted by news agency ANI)