Hyderabad: Close to 50 Telugu families are currently stranded at the Aktobe airport in Kazakhstan from Thursday morning after the Air India flight (191) from Mumbai to Newark (New Jersey, United States) made an emergency landing.
Passengers noticed white smoke from the left wing five hours after the takeoff and alerted the crew.
Immediately, the pilot issued a warning signal made a landing at Aktobe airport. Everyone was asleep when the announcement came and the pilot was calm and landed the plane smoothly, said one of the passengers, M. Venkat, contacting through whatsapp.
“We landed at the airport within 15 minutes of the announcement. We are right now inside the airport waiting for the last six hours for the replacement aircraft to arrive from Delhi. They served us soup and bread from the airport kitchen. Luckily, my mother has packed lemon rice for us,” he said.
He said there could be about 300 passengers and crew on the flight and the staff of airline and airport was doing the best they could do at the moment. “We landed at Aktobe airport at about 8 a.m. and I am not sure if we will be moved into the hotel before the replacement flight arrives at 10 p.m. as has been indicated to us,” he said.
25/08/16 V. Geetanath/The Hindu
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Passengers noticed white smoke from the left wing five hours after the takeoff and alerted the crew.
Immediately, the pilot issued a warning signal made a landing at Aktobe airport. Everyone was asleep when the announcement came and the pilot was calm and landed the plane smoothly, said one of the passengers, M. Venkat, contacting through whatsapp.
“We landed at the airport within 15 minutes of the announcement. We are right now inside the airport waiting for the last six hours for the replacement aircraft to arrive from Delhi. They served us soup and bread from the airport kitchen. Luckily, my mother has packed lemon rice for us,” he said.
He said there could be about 300 passengers and crew on the flight and the staff of airline and airport was doing the best they could do at the moment. “We landed at Aktobe airport at about 8 a.m. and I am not sure if we will be moved into the hotel before the replacement flight arrives at 10 p.m. as has been indicated to us,” he said.
25/08/16 V. Geetanath/The Hindu
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