Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Delhi airport got press again when Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi was slightly injured in an accident at the airport on Sunday morning.
The driver of a Jetlite airline boarding bus was allegedly talking on a cellphone when he suddenly braked. Modi, BJP national secretary Ravi Shankar Prasad and other senior party leaders were in the bus, which was taking them to flight to Ahmedabad.
Modi, who was standing inside the bus, fell down when the driver braked to avoid a collision with an aircraft heading for the parking bay from the runway. He was taken to a hospital in Vasant Kunj in south Delhi and discharged after two hours.
Gary Kinshot, a senior official of Jetlite, said the bus driver had been suspended and the airline is investigating the accident. The investigation report will take 48 hours.
“We arranged a special coach to take Modi to the aircraft from the airport lounge. Four others accompanying him sat down in the coach, Mr Modi was standing,'' UNI quoted unnamed Jetlite officials as saying.
The driver was not a permanent employee of the airline and has been fined for the accident. IANS reports a spokesperson for Delhi airport claimed the whole incident had been "blown out of proportion".
He said the driver applied the brakes not to avoid collision with an aircraft but with another bus moving ahead of it.
This is not the first such incident at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.
Last month, a woman aeronautical engineer, Sanskriti Sinha, working with Air Deccan was run over by a heavy vehicle while she was moving towards the hangar area to attend to some technical requirements of an aircraft at night.
In yet another accident, a security man riding a motorcycle inside the airport at night had accidentally hit another airport official, resulting in the latter's death.
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