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Old 18th Feb 2009, 06:33
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Airport Authority of India on Tuesday de-rostered two Air Traffic Control officers—a tower controller and a radar controller—for lapses that led to Monday’s incident.

Joint director of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation A K Chopra has begun a probe to detect what went wrong.

AAI officials had said the IAF chopper had landed at the airport without taking clearance and that had resulted in a collision-like situation since the airbus was taking off the same time.
But the real problem was something else.....

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