The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has pulled up Delhi airport operator DIAL after a series of bird hit cases were reported.
According to an official, a DGCA team visited Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport on Monday to review the measure taken to reduce cases of bird hit.
On Monday afternoon itself, a Kalitta air cargo plane declared an emergency and landed at IGI due to a suspected bird hit, which damaged the engine. A few days ago, the plane carrying Rahul Gandhi and other dignitaries had to do a go-around due to bird suffered by another plane. That incident came came days after a Russian airline flight made a landing in the corn field after taking off from Moscow’s Zhukovsky airport. The emergency landing — which was compared with the Hudson River landing of 2009 —was also caused by a bird hit.
