Mumbai, June 04: Barely a week after a near-miss, a mishap was averted last night at the Mumbai airport where a Kingfisher flight was cleared for landing at a runway on which a Spicejet plane was stationed after a technical fault.
The Mumbai-Chennai Spicejet flight was about to take off at around 11 pm but developed a technical problem at the last minute after which the Air Traffic Control asked it to abort the take-off, airport sources said.
But, at the same time, a Delhi-Mumbai Kingfisher Airlines aircraft was given permission for landing at the same runway.
However, just in time, the ATC asked the pilot of the Kingfisher plane to go around after which he decided to take the aircraft back to Delhi, the sources said.
—PTI