This was as close as it gets. On February 7, a Vistara flight descended to an altitude where an Air India aircraft was flying in the opposite direction, and the two planes then sped towards each other before a midair collision was averted by a few seconds. The near-miss is being seen as the closest shave witnessed in Indian skies in years.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has grounded two Vistara pilots. However, Vistara sources said the air traffic control (ATC) had asked the pilots to be at 27,000 feet and they did not do so inadvertently.
This incident happened in the Mumbai airspace after 8pm on Wednesday when AI’s Airbus A-319 was flying from Mumbai to Bhopal as AI 631 and was at a level of 27,000 feet.
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