Tense Delhi flies into high alert
Delhi got a hijack scare on Sunday evening after an Indigo flight with suspected hijackers on board made an emergency landing at the city’s Indira Gandhi International Airport.
Flight operations at the airport came to a standstill after the pilot of Indigo’s Delhi-Goa flight (6E 334) informed air traffic control at 5.15 pm that there were suspected hijackers on board. This sent the country’s security establishment into a tizzy The flight made a priority landing at 5.29 pm and was taken to an isolated bay where , a team of NSG and Central Industrial Security Force personnel surrounded the aircraft and cordoned off the area.
The 169 passengers and crew on board the Airbus A-320 aircraft were not allowed to disembark for over two hours. A meeting of the Committee of Secretaries on Anti–Hijacking (COSAH) chaired by the Cabinet Secretary was immediately called.
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Flight operations at the airport came to a standstill after the pilot of Indigo’s Delhi-Goa flight (6E 334) informed air traffic control at 5.15 pm that there were suspected hijackers on board. This sent the country’s security establishment into a tizzy The flight made a priority landing at 5.29 pm and was taken to an isolated bay where , a team of NSG and Central Industrial Security Force personnel surrounded the aircraft and cordoned off the area.
The 169 passengers and crew on board the Airbus A-320 aircraft were not allowed to disembark for over two hours. A meeting of the Committee of Secretaries on Anti–Hijacking (COSAH) chaired by the Cabinet Secretary was immediately called.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://epaper.hindustantimes.com
Labels: air traffic control, Airbus A-320 aircraft, COSAH, Flight operations, hijack scare, IGI, Indigo flight, New delhi, pilot
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