Friday, October 02, 2015

AI flight makes emergency landing in Delhi

New Delhi: Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport witnessed tense moments on Thursday evening when Air India’s Varanasi to Delhi flight (AI 433) with 133 passengers on board had to make an emergency landing reportedly due to a snag in one engine.

On September 7, another Airbus A320 aircraft on the same Varanasi-Delhi sector (AI 405) had to make an emergency landing at Delhi airport following a hydraulic leak. The passengers of the aircraft had to be evacuated through emergency chutes after smoke was detected in the rear tyres and a few passengers got injured in the process.

On Thursday, the pilot of the flight (Registration number VTEPJ) detected a warning for engine failure and informed the Air Traffic Control (ATC), requesting a priority landing. The Delhi ATC declared full emergency at 7.50 pm and all precautionary measures were taken at the airport. Fire tenders, medical aid and security personnel were deployed near the tarmac as precaution.

The flight landed safely at 8.10 pm on the runway 29 of the airport and none of the passengers or cabin crew were injured in the incident.
02/10/15 Siddhartha Roy/The Hindu
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