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How AI pilots and ATC avoided a disaster on this 9/11

Nabanita Dutta

News Editor

A Boeing 777 as AI101 Delhi-JHK nonstop were flying with 370 passengers onboard when the flight faced multiple instrument failures in its last stretch. It was running scarily low on fuel and the instrument landing system (ILS) also failed at the last moment along with other systems. The two captains showed nerve of steel and made contact with ATC and with swift co-ordination they zeroed on Newark EWR and landed there.