After emergency landing, flight stranded on runway

Kolkata: An IndiGo Airlines flight from Guwahati got stranded on the primary runway after making an emergency landing on Wednesday evening, forcing the airport to suspend operations till the landing strip was cleared. The Airbus 320 aircraft had to be physically towed by a push-back tractor after its surface steering control jammed. The latter allows a pilot to steer the aircraft to the left or right when taxiing on the ground after landing.
Around 7.30pm on Wednesday, the pilot of IndiGo Airlines flight 6E 291 from Guwahati to Chennai via Kolkata radioed the ATC at Kolkata and requested for an emergency landing as the aircraft had developed a hydraulic system failure. There were 169 passengers on board, including an infant. While the landing gear that is also controlled by hydraulics was all right, the problem was either with the wings or the ground steering control.
Following the SOS, full emergency procedures were rolled out at the airport. Fire tenders and ambulances were positioned next to the runway.
28/10/10 Times of India

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