Flight takes off from Delhi airport

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Aircraft takes off from IGI airport in New Delhi. Delhi Airport has three near-parallel runways: runway 11/29, 4,430 m × 60 m (14,534 ft × 197 ft) with CAT IIIB instrument landing system (ILS) on both sides, runway 10/28, 3,810 m × 50 m (12,500 ft × 164 ft), and an auxiliary runway 09/27, 2,813 m × 45 m (9,229 ft × 148 ft). Runway 10/28 and runway 11/29 are the only two in South Asia to have been equipped with the CAT III-B ILS. In the winter of 2005 there were a record number of disruptions at Delhi airport due to fog/smog. Since then some domestic airlines have trained their pilots to operate under CAT-II conditions of a minimum 350 m (1,150 ft) visibility. On 31 March 2006, IGI became the first Indian airport to operate two runways simultaneously following a test run involving a SpiceJe