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 the landing of the flight from New Delhi at Hubballi in north Karnataka on Thursday.

Alleging "intentional tampering" with aircraft, the Congress 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 was 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.

A Civil Aviation Ministry official said in Delhi: "It would be premature to comment on anything now including the tampering theory. We will await the (DGCA) probe report."

The official said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) would probe all the angles like in any such case involving a VIP aircraft.

One of the officials in the ministry referred to the statement of Hubballi Airport Director S K Ahalya that the aircraft had landed safely.

Earlier in the day, a senior official said the DGCA had set up a two-member committee to probe the incident.

While one member is from the Directorate of Air Safety, the other is from the Directorate of Airworthiness, a senior DGCA official told PTI.

The panel has been asked to submit its report in the next two-three weeks, the official added.

As part of the probe, the official said, the panel would call the cockpit crew and engineers for questioning.

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

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