New Delhi: As the recent air-miss incident involving a special aircraft carrying UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and a Virgin Atlantic flight on September 10 was being investigated, an air traffic control officer was suspended pending enquiry, official sources said on Tuesday.
Maintaining that the incident was not one which could have resulted in a mishap, chief of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Kanu Gohain told reporters that “no unsafe situation was created” and both the planes were under constant radar surveillance and VHF (very high frequency) radar contact.
He said the incident was a “procedural breach” of regulations laid down for lateral and vertical separation between two aircraft flying at a certain height.
This led to what is called an “air-miss” as opposed to “near-miss.”
Official sources said an ATC official was suspended pending the DGCA probe. PTI
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