Five flyers injured in airport mishap

New Delhi: Five onboard passengers of an IndiGo coach at the airport sustained minor injuries after a window shattered allegedly due to a jet blast from a SpiceJet plane approaching a parking bay on Friday evening. However, SpiceJet said it was too early to say if the incident on Friday evening was caused by jet blast from its aircraft or any other reason.   

The police has registered an FIR and would look at who was at fault, a Delhi police official said.  

The incident happened Friday evening when the IndiGo bus was ferrying passengers to the plane, headed to Mumbai, an IndiGo spokesperson said.

The front window of the bus broke due to a jet blast from a SpiceJet plane that was making its way to a parking bay nearby, the spokesperson added. Five passengers received minor injuries and were rushed to the airport clinic.

The matter is being probed by aviation watchdog Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), sources have confirmed.

“IndiGo Coach number 34 was parked at Bay 17 at 16:50 hours for boarding of passengers on flight 6E-191 enroute Delhi-Mumbai. At the same time, an arriving aircraft of SpiceJet SG-253 took a turn  to park at the allocated bay. The jet blast from the aircraft broke the right front window glass of the coach,” IndiGo said in a statement. 

The airline’s statement added that two of the injured passengers decided to continue their journey after receiving medical aid.

SpiceJet, however, said its plane was “following ATC instructions and taxiing after landing at Delhi”.

“It is too early to say if the incident was caused by an outside object or jet blast of SpiceJet aircraft or the bus violated the vehicular movement lane or any other reason,” the statement added.     

Deputy commissioner of police (airport) Sanjay Bhatia said, “We are registering an FIR under Section 337 of the IPC to investigate who is at fault in the incident”.