{"id":653938,"date":"2025-11-25T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=653938"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:35:10","slug":"aircraft-from-kabul-lands-on-runway-meant-for-departures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aircraft-from-kabul-lands-on-runway-meant-for-departures\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft from Kabul lands on runway meant for departures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A disaster was averted at Delhi&#8217;s IGI Airport on Sunday when an Afghan Ariana flight from Kabul cleared to land on a runway touched down on a nearby parallel take-off airstrip. Luckily, no aircraft was taxiing to take off.<\/p>\n<p>In a written explanation sought from him, the captain of the 35-year-old Afghan Airbus A310 claimed that his aircraft &#8220;unintentionally deviated from the intended approach path&#8221; due to poor visibility and &#8220;instrument landing system (ILS) malfunction&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A disaster was averted at Delhi&#8217;s IGI Airport on Sunday when an Afghan Ariana flight from Kabul cleared to land on a runway touched down on a nearby parallel take-off airstrip. Luckily, no aircraft was taxiing to take off. In a written explanation sought from him, the captain of the 35-year-old Afghan Airbus A310 claimed that his aircraft &#8220;unintentionally deviated from the intended approach path&#8221; due to poor visibility and &#8220;instrument landing system (ILS) malfunction&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}