Govt will take appropriate action in case anything found wanting in Rahul Gandhi plane incident: Prabhu

Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu today said the government has ordered a detailed inquiry into the plane incident involving Congress President Rahul Gandhi and that appropriate action would be taken in case anything is "found wanting".

The incident happened during landing of the flight from New Delhi at Hubballi in north Karnataka on Thursday.

Alleging "intentional tampering" with aircraft, the Congress party had yesterday demanded a probe into the "suspicious and faulty performance" of the 10-seater Falcon 2000.

In his first comments about the incident, Prabhu said an inquiry is already on.

"As soon as I heard about this issue, I directed the DGCA to conduct a detailed inquiry and to find out the cause of it.

"If there is anything found wanting and whoever is responsible for it, we will take appropriate action," he told reporters on the sidelines of an event here.

Earlier in the day, a senior official said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has set up a two-member committee to probe the incident.

On Thursday, a senior DGCA official had confirmed that the aircraft had suffered "technical snag".