Plane nearly lands on top of another plane at Mumbai airport

Two planes at Mumbai’s airport ended up mere moments away from disaster in a mix up that saw one plane land on a runway while another was still taking off. An Air India flight to Thiruvananthapuram had apparently delayed in taking off from the runway at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, and was still on the runway when an IndiGo flight from Indore was beginning to land. Despite the delay, air traffic control apparently told both aircraft to proceed. The Indo flight entered the runway before the Air India plane had taken off, leading to the bizarre and dangerous sight of both planes occupying the same runway at once. The Air India flight successfully took off mere seconds before suffering an international fender bender. Both airlines, the airport and India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation are investigating the incident, while the air traffic controller on duty at the time has been ‘derostered.’ Questions are being raised about how clearance was given to the IndiGo pilot to land, why the Air India flight was not ordered to vacate the runway, and why the IndiGo pilot continued to land despite there being an entire plane in the way.