Guwahati: Two Indigo aircrafts were 45 seconds apart from a mid-air crash over Bangladesh sky on Wednesday evening.
The incident took place at 5:10 pm. Indigo flight 6E 856 aircraft was flying from Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International (LGBI) Airport in Guwahati to Kolkata. The other, aircraft Indigo 6E 571 was flying from Chennai to Guwahati.
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According to reports, the incident happened due to a wrong signal sent by Air Traffic Control (ATC) at Shah Makhdum Airport at Raj Shahi.
The two aircraft came face-to-face mid-air somewhere over Rangpur in Bangladesh. The mishap was averted due to the alertness of the pilots.
