Disaster averted: Tail of Jet Airways flight hits another plane at Delhi airport

A disaster was averted at the Delhi airport on Sunday when the tail of a Patna-bound Jet Airways aircraft hit the wings of another plane headed to Srinagar.

Sources said the collision took place when both the planes were on their way to runway no. 29 at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport around 3 pm.

Airport officials and airlines sources were not clear whether any passengers were hurt in the accident or not. However, the police and DCP Sanjay Bhatia said nobody was injured in the



accident.

Airport officials said an inquiry would be ordered to look into the incident.

On April 26, a similar accident was reported from the Delhi airport in which a catering van had collided with an Air India plane, damaging its door.

Airport sources said the runway was not shut down and the flight operations were not hit.

Both the planes were taken to the parking area after the collision and grounded till further inquiry.

Jet Airways are yet to issue an official statement over the incident.