Scare
for PM's plane minutes before landing New
Delhi: A plane carrying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh got a security scare on
Tuesday evening when an unidentified object was spotted flying close to it. Singh
was returning from Jamshedpur when Delhi’s air traffic control (ATC) picked
up an unidentified blip on its radar. The blip could have been an unidentified
aircraft. The
Prime Minister’s aircraft was aligned to the instrument landing system—a
system which aids planes to land—of the runway at the Delhi International
aircraft when ATC picked up the blip. Fearing
for security, the plane was disengaged from the instrument landing system to take
evasive action from the unidentified object. Sources at the Delhi ATC though say
that the blip could have been a radar malfunction. The
plane was delayed by 16 minutes. This
was the second security scare for the PM’s aircraft since December 2007.
The pilot and co-pilot of a private airline's helicopter were arrested on December
17 when they landed at a helipad in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, minutes before
Singh was about to take off. | 
