Two IndiGo flights that took off from the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) on January 9 averted a mid-air collision after a radar controller took corrective action, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said in a preliminary report.
While flight 6ED 455 bound for Kolkata had 176 passengers and six crew, the Bengaluru-Bhubaneswar flight 6E 246 had on board 238 passengers and six crew. The breach of separation, the report said, was not reported by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). The breach occurs when the minimum mandatory vertical or horizontal distance is crossed in the airspace.
