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Delhi airport temporarily halts flight operations after 'drone-like object' spotted on runway
Fp Staff •Flight operations were suspended for over half-an-hour at the international airport here on Sunday after a "drone-like object" was spotted in one of the runways
DGCA suspends licences of IndiGo pilots who were involved in landing scare
•Putting the lives of passengers in danger, an IndiGo aircraft flew close to the road running parallel to the Jaipur Airport runway in February and aviation regulator DGCA has now suspended the flying licenses of the two pilots concerned.
Doggie’s day out: Flights affected as stray animal wanders onto runway at Mumbai airport
Fp Archives •One flight had to abort take off and four other flights’ landing had to be briefly suspended as a dog strayed onto the runway of Mumbai airport.
Photos: After 20 years on the runway, supermodel Gisele Bundchen retires
Fp Staff •Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen formally announced her retirement from modeling on Wednesday after 20 years of walking the runway.
Asiana Airlines plane skids off runway in Hiroshima, injures 23
Fp Archives •An Asiana airlines passenger jet skidded off the runway after landing at Japan's Hiroshima airport on Tuesday.
Officials examining why Air Canada plane landed short of runway at Halifax airport
Fp Archives •An Air Canada passenger plane landed so significantly short of the runway in Halifax that it hit a power line and knocked out power at the airport.
AirAsia jet overshoots runway while landing in Philippines
Fp Archives •The incident came after the crash of an AirAsia plane that disappeared over the Java Sea on Sunday on a flight from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on board. Bloated bodies and debris were seen floating in Indonesian waters Tuesday.
Cops push Shivraj Singh's parked plan to make way for Kamal Nath to land
Fp Archives •Around eight policemen and some officials had to push the parked plane of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for about 15-20 feet at an airstrip in Chhindwara on Monday to give way to an incoming aircraft of Congress leader Kamal Nath.
DGCA for cameras in cockpits to improve flying safety
Fp Editors •Director General of Civil Aviation is considering installing cameras in cockpits, which it hopes will help improve safety.
Mumbai runway closed after Turkish plane skids off
Fp Staff •A Turkish aircraft with 97 passengers and crew on board skidded off the runway at the Mumbai Airport early on Friday, resulting in closure of the main runway.