Indigo flights narrowly escape mid-air collision over Bengaluru airspace
Mumbai, July 12 (IBNS): Altogether 328 passengers onboard two Indigo flights had a providential escape when the two aircraft came near a mid-air collision before the pilots took emergency evasive manoeuvres to avoid a disaster over Bengaluru airspace on Tuesday, media reports said.
According to NDTV, the two IndiGo aircraft, both Airbus A-320s, were operating on the Coimbatore-Hyderabad (6E-779) and Bangalore-Cochin (6E-6505) routes respectively when in-cockpit alerts warned the pilots of an imminent collision between the airliners.
The report said the aircraft were vertically separated by just 200 feet as they headed towards each other. Travelling at several hundred kilometres per hour towards each other, the two aircraft were physically less than 8 kilometres away from each other when collision avoidance systems onboard were triggered.
According to IndiGo, ''The TCAS-Resolution Advisory system was triggered on two of our aircraft.''
The airline has since informed the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the aviation watchdog, of the near-miss.
An investigation into the incident has been started.
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