India, April 17 -- A SpiceJet plane taxiing at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport Terminal 1 struck a stationary Akasa aircraft on Thursday around 2.15 pm, causing damage to both the planes.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation DGCA has initiated a probe into the incident. Both Boeing 737 aircraft have been grounded at the airport after the incident. An Air Traffic Controller official and the SpiceJet pilots have been derostered.

Akasa Air's plane was to operate flight QP 1406 from Delhi to Hyderabad, while the SpiceJet aircraft had arrived from Leh after operating the flight SG 124.

The right winglet of SpiceJet was damaged and the left-hand horizontal stabiliser of Akasa was hit.

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