The call centre of the DIAL (Delhi International Airport Limited) received a large number of calls, especially from foreign countries.

An official in the call centre said the frequency of the calls was four times higher than the normal calls.

“On an average, we receive 25 calls in an hour from abroad but yesterday after this news was flashed on TV channels all over the world, we received around 100 calls per hour and it went on till 9 in the morning till the situation came under control,” said an official.

The callers were reportedly asking about the incident and some about their dear ones who were at the Delhi Airport or whose flights were about to arrive. In fact, some of the senior officials of DIAL personally received calls on their cell phones.

Investigations
After 36 hours of police investigations, senior officials said nothing has emerged so far to prove there was a firing at the airport yesterday or any Qualis came to the airport. Delhi Police officials also said no witness to the incident has come forward yet who has seen anyone firing.

CISF officials were however reiterated that they heard gunshots and they are not buying Delhi Police theory.

Delhi Police however still making efforts to look for said Qualis. Every corner of the airport has also been checked to look for empty bullet shells but nothing has been found.

Meanwhile, the threat to the airport is not over yet and all the airports remain on high alert as Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) had alerted that terrorist could attack from December 3 to December 7, Sunday.

Emergency landing at airport
An Indian Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport on Friday due to a technical snag.

Delhi-Bangalore flight IC-904 (Airbus-320) took off with 46 people on board at 8.58 pm — soon after take off the pilot informed about the technical snag. Ambulances and fire brigades were at hand as the aircraft landed safely on runway 29 at 9.47 pm.

In another incident earlier in the evening, the tyre of a small aircraft burst due to which runway 29 had to be shut for at least three hours. The tyre of King Air (C-90) VTSLK burst at about 5 pm. “Runway 27 was used for arrivals till this aircraft was removed,” a DIAL spokesperson said. “Arrivals resumed on the runway at 8:15 pm. There were four passengers and two crew members on board. They are absolutely safe,” the official said. During the period, simultaneous operations were maintained on runway 09/27 and 10/28.