New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- Congress MP KC Venugopal calls for an inquiry into the incident involving Air India flight AI2455, which was travelling from Thiruvananthapuram to Delhi but diverted to Chennai due to a suspected technical issue.

"There should be an inquiry into the issue. An unfortunate incident happened yesterday. It was announced by the pilot that there was another aircraft on the runway when we were going to land. I spoke to DGCA as well. Let them have an inquiry. Air India is lying..." Congress MP and a passenger of AI2455, KC Venugopal told ANI.

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