Indira Gandhi International Airport

Indira Gandhi International Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	VIDP
IATA code	DEL
Coordinates	28 ° 33 '59 "  N , 77 ° 6' 11"  E Coordinates: 28 ° 33 '59 "  N , 77 ° 6' 11"  E
Height above MSL	236 m (774  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	16 km southwest of New Delhi
Street	Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway
Basic data
operator	Delhi International Airport Private Limited (DIAL)
Terminals	3
Passengers	63,451,503 (2017)
Air freight	760,492 t (2015)
Flight movements	327,836 (2015)
Capacity ( PAX per year)	about 60 million
Runways
09/27	2813 m × 46 m asphalt
10/28	3810 m × 46 m asphalt
11/29	4430 m × 46 m asphalt

The Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) ( IATA code : DEL ; ICAO code: VIDP ) is an international airport around 16 kilometers southwest of the Indian capital New Delhi .

The airport is 226 meters high and has three terminals and three runways: Terminal 1 is the former Palam International Airport, which is used for domestic air traffic. Terminal 2 and especially the new Terminal 3 are intended for international flights. 10/28 is used as the main runway.

Currently, more than 63 million passengers heading for domestic destinations are handled annually, which means that New Delhi has surpassed the previous country leader for Mumbai Airport .

The airport serves as a hub for numerous Indian airlines such as SpiceJet , Alliance Air and IndiGo Airlines . Air India uses the airport as a second hub next to the more international Mumbai airport.

For the 2010 Commonwealth Games , the airport was connected to the Delhi Metro network.

Terminal 3

In July 2010, Terminal 3 went into operation after 37 months of construction. It has an area of ​​502,000 m², making it the eighth largest passenger terminal in the world. Given the current growth in traffic, the added capacity of 34 million passengers should be sufficient for around ten years (until 2020). Further expansion plans by 2026 envisage a capacity of 100 million passengers.

The following airlines are currently flying the A380 to New Delhi: Singapore Airlines on the Singapore - New Delhi route ; Lufthansa has been using an A380 on the Frankfurt am Main – New Delhi route since October 26, 2014 .

Incidents

(Selection)

• On October 8, 1948, when a Vickers Viking 1B of Indian National Airways ( aircraft registration VT-CEJ ) took off from Delhi-Palam Airport to Calcutta, the left tire burst . The machine broke out and left the runway, whereupon the landing gear collapsed. It came to a total loss. All 19 passengers and the 4 crew members survived.

• On January 25, 1970, a Fokker F-27-200 Friendship of Royal Nepal Airlines (9N-AAR) got into a severe thunderstorm with turbulence and heavy squalls after a flight from Kathmandu , Nepal during the final approach to Delhi-Palam Airport . The pilots lost control of the plane; it crashed three kilometers east of the airport. One crew member was killed, all other 22 occupants survived.

• On June 14, 1972, a Douglas DC-8-53 of Japan Airlines (JA8012) flew into the ground 20 kilometers east of the airport on approach. 82 of the 87 people on board and 4 on the ground were killed.

• On May 31, 1973, the captain of a Boeing 737-2A8 from Indian Airlines (VT-EAM) fell below the minimum descent altitude while approaching Delhi Airport with a visibility below the prescribed minimum visibility , without having the runway in sight. The machine eventually got caught in power lines, fell to the ground, and went up in flames. Of the 65 people on board, 48 died (see also Indian Airlines flight 440 ) .

• On March 8, 1994, a training flight was carried out at New Delhi Airport with a Boeing 737-200 operated by the Indian Sahara Airlines (VT-SIA) . Five touch-and-go landings took place without any special incidents, after the sixth the aircraft suddenly leaned sharply to the left and crashed onto the apron of the international terminal. The burning wreckage of the machine slid against an Ilyushin Il-86 of Aeroflot , which then also caught fire and was destroyed. All four crew members of the Boeing died in the accident, four other people in the Ilyushin and one person on the apron died. The cause was the actuation of the rudder by a trainee pilot in the wrong direction during a simulated engine failure (see also flight accident at Delhi Airport in 1994 ) .

• November 12, 1996 launched a Boeing 747-100B the airline Saudi Arabian Airlines , which took off from the airport, with an Ilyushin Il-76 of the Air Kazakhstan , which was on final approach, together. All 349 people on board both aircraft died (see Charkhi Dadri aircraft collision ) .

See also

• List of the largest commercial airports

Web links

Commons : Indira Gandhi International Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
• www.newdelhiairport.in Official website (English)
• A guide to Indira Gandhi International Airport (English)
• Passenger opinions about the airport (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Indira Gandhi Delhi International Airport Fact Sheet. In: newdelhiairport.in. Retrieved April 6, 2015 . 
2. ^ Accident report Viking 1B VT-CEJ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 8, 2017.
3. ^ Accident report F-27 9N-AAR , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 11, 2017.
4. ↑ accident report DC-8-53 JA8012 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 11 November 2017th
5. ^ Accident report B-737-200 VT-EAM , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 22, 2019.
6. ↑ Accident report Boeing 737-200 VT-SIA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 4, 2020.
7. ^ John F. Burns: One Jet in Crash Over India Ruled Off Course . In: The New York Times , May 5, 1997. Retrieved May 24, 2010.