The Director-General of Civil Aviation is probing the November 26 incident in which Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s plane was asked to abort landing at the Delhi airport.
The Cessna Citation business jet was forced to make a go-around as a large IL-76 IAF aircraft, which had just landed, was still taxiing on the tarmac, Civil Aviation Ministry sources said here on Thursday. The DGCA probe is to ascertain whether there was any lapse on part of the IAF aircraft or the jet or even the Air Traffic Control (ATC), which alerted Mr. Gandhi’s plane. .
However, Ministry officials said no safety issue was involved as there was no threat to the plane ferrying Mr. Gandhi back from Rae Barelly. It was asked to go around, which is a normal safety-related manoeuvre, and it landed safely later, they added.
It was estimated that the jet would be able to land after the heavy-lift Illyushin-76 'Gajaraj' vacated the runway, which did not happen.
