INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: An Amritsar-Ahmedabad IndiGo flight on Saturday strayed into Pakistan from over the Atari border due to bad weather
Soon after taking off at 7.45pm, the Airbus A320neo had to take a deviation from its regular flight path due to bad weather into Pakistani
airspace where it flew for almost 30 minutes without any scare before re-entering India
Pakistani airspace due to bad weather
The deviation was well coordinated with Pakistan by Amritsar air traffic control via telephone
Such issues are handled by coordination with the ATC
destination due to heavy rain
The Boeing 777 was diverted to Multan when it entered the Indian airspace en route
The pilots of this flight informed Indian ATC who then allowed it to use the airspace to proceed to the diversion airfield.Flights of all
Indian airlines to and from the west overfly Pakistan and airports in the country are designated diversion airfields in case a plane needs
to land there due to technical reasons
There have been several instances of Indian carriers diverting to Karachi.What Pakistan does not allow are international flights between
Jammu and Kashmir and the west to overfly its airspace
operated by SpiceJet (on wet lease planes) from Srinagar, these flights are not cleared to overly Pakistan
As a result, they have to take a much longer route by flying down to Gujarat and then take Arabian Sea without overflying the Karachi
