Two flights returned to Chennai airport

Chennai: The Chennai-Kolkata Alliance Air flight with 89 passengers on board returned to the Kamaraj domestic airport here today following a crack on the front glass of the flight.
Airport sources said the flight via Bhubaneshwar took off at 1135 hrs after a delay of about an hour. When the pilot noticed the crack and informed the Air Traffic Control (ATC) here, the ATC directed the pilot to return to Chennai as the Bhubaneshwar airport lacked emeregency landing facility. Following this, the pilot landed the flight here safely at 1240 hrs.
Meanwhile, the Chennai-Port Blair Jet Airways flight with 145 passengers aboard was also returned to the Kamaraj domestic airport here as it could not land at Port Blair due to bad weather condition.
The aircraft, which left at 1025 hrs, reached Port Blair around 1300 hrs, and after hovering some time over the airport, returned to Chennai as the weather condition worsened further.
19/06/07 UNI/NewKerala.com

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