Planes avert mid-air collision in Indo-Bangladesh airspace border

According to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) officials, two IndiGo planes averted a mid-air collision at the border airspace of India and Bangladesh.

With just 45 seconds before the possible collision, one of the planes was instructed by the Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower in Kolkata to turn right and move away from the other aircraft that had come at the same level. “Both the aircraft, belonging to low cost carrier IndiGo, had come on the same level on Wednesday evening and posed a threat to both the airplanes,” a senior AAI official at the Kolkata airport told PTI.

“One aircraft was going to Guwahati from Chennai and the other from Guwahati to Kolkata. The planes had come close to each other around 5.10 pm,” he said. The Kolkata-bound flight was at 36,000 ft in Bangladesh airspace and the other one at 35,000 ft in Indian airspace.