Mumbai-bound Air India flight makes emergency landing

Mumbai: An Air India flight bound for Mumbai from Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa, with 91 passengers on board made an emergency landing at the international airport here yesterday owing to hydraulic failure, an airport official said.
"Full emergency was declared after the Mumbai-bound Air India flight IC-169 reported hydraulic failure," a Mumbai International Airport Limited (Mial) spokesperson told the Press Trust of India.
Airport authorities received the information at 4:34pm. The aircraft landed safely at 4:43pm, the spokesperson said. It was then towed away from the runway to a bay.
26/07/09 PTI/Daily News & Analysis

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