Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force was closely monitoring a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777 jetliner which crossed into the Indian airspace last week, after it failed to land at Lahore airport because of heavy rain in the region.
On May 4, the Pakistani International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-248, being operated on a 16-year-old Boeing 777, had taken off from Muscat for Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport when it had to abort its landing because of poor weather conditions.
Sources said the Delhi Air Traffic Control had been alerted to the conditions that the jetliner was experiencing, and that it had processed a request for the Boeing to fly a detour given the weather in the area.
The incident of the PIA aircraft flying in Indian airspace due to bad weather was coordinated between Lahore and Delhi area control, with information being shared with the Air Force Movement Liaison Unit,”sources said.
