Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Flight from Mumbai makes emergency landing in Nairobi

New Delhi:  A Kenyan Airways flight from Mumbai carrying nearly 150 passengers besides crew made an emergency landing at Nairobi today following rupture in a tyre in the main landing gear. The flight KQ 205 had departed from Mumbai at 0635 hours. After spotting pieces of tyre soon after take off, the Mumbai Air Traffic Control (ATC) centre informed the pilot about it, sources said.
There were around 150 passengers apart from crew members on the Boeing flight KQ 205. At Nairobi airport, the pilot made an emergency landing, the sources said. “On arriving in Nairobi, the flight commander first did a low pass to check the status, then landed on second time. It was a fabulous job on his part. All the passengers were safely deplaned,” sources said.
19/07/16 India.com
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