The incident occurred just two days after the Director General of Commercial Aviation gave a certification to the third runway.

Kerry was on a visit to New Delhi for talks with senior leaders and was travelling in a US Army aircraft.

The plane first tried to land on the newly constructed third runway.

However, it didn’t receive any input from the localiser of the ILS of the third runway. A localiser helps the aircraft align itself with the centre line of the runway for a safe landing.

The aircraft then pulled back and tried to land on the primary runway, 28/10, where it encountered the same problem. It finally landed on the secondary and the shortest runway, 27/09.

The third runway recently got a surface movement radar from the Airport Authority of India.