“Another plane, all of a sudden, came in front of my aircraft. If the situation had continued for 10 more seconds, there would have been a head-on collision. It was due to the efficiency of the pilot that I survived,” Mamata Banerjee said.
An alert approach radar controller closely monitoring the airspace above Bengaluru's Airport may have saved the lives of hundreds of passengers onboard two IndiGo jetliners that nearly had a mid-air collision shortly after both took off on Jan 7.
The two Emirates jets that had a close shave on January 9 were the Dubai-Hyderabad flight (EK-524) and the Dubai-Bengaluru flight (EK-568), sources said.