Mumbai: It was almost touchdown for the Mumbai-Chennai Indigo flight 6E 431 at Meenambakkam airport, Chennai, at around 12 noon yesterday, when the plane suddenly took off again, leaving passengers scared and confused.
Sitting at a window seat and watching the ground racing by, passenger Uma Raj told Gulf News: “I was waiting for the seconds when the plane’s wheels would touch the runway.”
“Instead of landing, the plane just took off, in fact quite smoothly. We were taken aback especially those sitting near the window and had watched the whole thing happen.”
For the perplexed passengers, the announcement from the pilot was that he had to take off since another plane was standing on the runway. “He told us, ‘that’s why we took off’.
“We just kept our fingers crossed that the second landing would be safe and fine. The aircraft then circled around Chennai for about 10-15 minutes and finally landed safely. The pilot again announced that we had still arrived earlier than the scheduled time.”
10/12/12 Pamela Raghunath/Gulf News
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Sitting at a window seat and watching the ground racing by, passenger Uma Raj told Gulf News: “I was waiting for the seconds when the plane’s wheels would touch the runway.”
“Instead of landing, the plane just took off, in fact quite smoothly. We were taken aback especially those sitting near the window and had watched the whole thing happen.”
For the perplexed passengers, the announcement from the pilot was that he had to take off since another plane was standing on the runway. “He told us, ‘that’s why we took off’.
“We just kept our fingers crossed that the second landing would be safe and fine. The aircraft then circled around Chennai for about 10-15 minutes and finally landed safely. The pilot again announced that we had still arrived earlier than the scheduled time.”
10/12/12 Pamela Raghunath/Gulf News
