After IndiGo, SpiceJet Planes' Narrow Miss, Twitter Invokes Dangal, DDLJ

A tragic ending was averted at the Delhi Airport this morning when an IndiGo plane and a SpiceJet plane found themselves nose-to-nose on the runway and narrowly missed colliding. Pictures of the planes facing each other on the runaway, just feet apart, have been circulating online since. Most people are heaving a sigh of relief that the scary picture didn't get any scarier but Twitter never passes up an opportunity to joke.

Twitter has been at it since the story was reported, finding hilarious explanations, imagining scenarios and invoking Bollywood to describe the moment.

The 'janta hai mera baap kon hai?' joke has been used, so has actor Aamir Khan's blockbuster film Dangal's dialogue, and Salman Khan's 51st birthday has been referenced. Here are some of the funniest tweets we spotted.
 

IndiGo and Spicejet Planes meets n the runway.
looks like a classic Hindi movie climax. pic.twitter.com/kU4draPznn

- pony stark (@crankydevil) December 27, 2016

Indigo and SpiceJet flights avert collision at Delhi airport.

Later the pilots came out & asked each other "Janta hai mera baap kon hai?" pic.twitter.com/gwJdWARFqR

- Sand-d Singh (@Sand_In_Deed) December 27, 2016

Just hear the DDLJ mandalin played in the background in ur head!!!
Indigo and SpiceJet!!!!

- Parazo Diaz (@Pratik323) December 27, 2016

Just hear the DDLJ mandalin played in the background in ur head!!!
Indigo and SpiceJet!!!!

- Parazo Diaz (@Pratik323) December 27, 2016

Indigo and SpiceJet planes meet on the runway.
"YOU GOT UR HEAD IN THE GAME?!"
"I GOT MY HEAD IN THE GAME!!!!!" pic.twitter.com/1bvnitd36g

- rushati (@rushmukh) December 27, 2016

Indigo and SpiceJet be like "Ab Dangal Hoga" pic.twitter.com/RuOn448CuW

- Abhishek Anand (@swayamabhishek) December 27, 2016

Bhai ka bday hai, Kuch toofaani toh banta hai. #Salmankhanbirthday
Indigo and SpiceJet pic.twitter.com/RaBZQHRqXi

- Girliyapa (@Girliyapa) December 27, 2016

According to reports, there was a miscommunication with the Air Traffic Control tower that resulted in both planes taxiing down the runway towards each other. It was the IndiGo pilot who noticed the other plane and applied his brakes, in the nick of time. No passengers were hurt.