An Air India Delhi-Paris flight on Friday returned to originating airport at the Indira Gandhi International Airport shortly after take-off following the Delhi air traffic controllers informed the flight crew about suspected tyre debris sighted on the runway after its departure.
A SpiceJet aircraft caught fire Tuesday evening at Delhi airport during engine maintenance work. The aircraft and maintenance personnel are safe, officials said.
“Three egg-shaped yellow metal (gold) in paste form, weight approx 810 gms (INR approx 50 lakhs) recovered from the rectum of the said passenger. The passenger and the visitor along with recovered yellow metal (gold), were handed over to Customs officials for further action in the matter,” r
According to Delhi police, the passenger, identified as Ajay Kumar Bana, was set to travel from Delhi to Bengaluru on an Air India flight, was detained on Tuesday at the Delhi Airport in possession of 19 live cartridges.
The advisory reads that all the Heads of Operations are hereby advised to sensitize their pilots and cabin crew members to strictly follow the Aeronautical Information Circular (AIC) and prevent any unauthorized entry into the cockpit through appropriate means.
According to a senior official of Air Traffic Controllers (ATC) Delhi, management has issued a publication to deploy trained staff for the new runway operations.
Air India, in an official statement issued on Tuesday, said that the airline follows a zero-tolerance policy for such unruly and unacceptable behaviour.
A man travelling on a Mumbai-Delhi Air India flight was arrested at the airport here for allegedly defecating and urinating on his co-passenger, officials said.
BJP national president JP Nadda, party MPs and its Delhi chief Virendra Sachdeva would receive Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his return to the national capital after concluding his hugely successful and substantive maiden State visits to the US and Egypt.
Customs officials at Delhi airport seized over five-kilogram gold, collectively valued at about Rs 2.56 crore, from five passengers who smuggled the precious metal into the country.
In an official statement, CISF said that the arrested accused was identified as Karibil Haque, an Indian national, who arrived from Dubai on an Air India flight.