A flight from New Delhi to Leh avoided disaster as the A320 narrowly avoided a UAV over the airport.
The Air India A320 was making a go around after it failed to get clearance to land at the airport. The crew had lost radio communications with the IAF-manned control tower. In such scenario, the tower would fire off a green flare to indicate the aircraft on final is cleared to land.
However, the pilots on board AI 3449 did not see a green flare and initiated a go around, during the process they notice a UAV was also in their flight path. Both planes missed each other by 100 feet.
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