Dog on runway delays landing of AI flight

A Delhi-Mumbai Air India flight was forced to delay its landing on Saturday evening after airport officials sighted a dog on the main runway.

• Written by Express News Service
• Mumbai | September 13, 2009 05:50 AM IST
1 min read

A Delhi-Mumbai Air India flight was forced to delay its landing on Saturday evening after airport officials sighted a dog on the main runway.

“At 6.30 pm,our safety officers sighted a dog going towards the main runway. They immediately alerted Air Traffic Control (ATC),which asked flight IC 863 to wait till the runway was cleared,” said a Mumbai airport spokesperson after confirming the incident.

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The dog was sighted just before the flight was to land. The flight eventually landed at the airport at 7.06 pm instead of 6.35 pm.

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