Jet flight lands in Delhi with snag

Passengers and crew members of a London bound Jet airways flight had some anxious moments when their aircraft had to make an unscheduled landing at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on Saturday. The Amritsar-London Jet Airway's flight (9W124), which took off from Amritsar's Raja Sansi airport about 2.30 pm, was made to land at the Delhi airport at about 3.50 p.m. after the pilot team noticed some problem in the windshield of the K330 airbus.
According to sources, the aircraft entered a storm as soon as it crossed the international boundary. "The windshield of the aircraft apparently developed a crack.
It can be dangerous to undertake a long journey with cracked windshield. It cannot fly at high altitude.
Since Amritsar is a small station, and there was a spare aircraft available at Delhi, the flight was brought to Delhi and the passengers were moved to another aircraft," an airline source said. The flight, with 226 passengers aboard, finally took off at about 6.30 pm from Delhi, he added.
31/08/08 Hindustan Times/news.yahoo.com

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