Ranchi: Passengers, including Jamshedpur MP Ajay Kumar, onboard a Delhi-bound GoAir flight which made an emergency landing late on Sunday evening had a harrowing time. Although the flight took off safely 3 hours after it landed, the passengers suffered for hours at the airport here. Many of them complained that the airline did not make any arrangement for food.
Smoke was detected in the cargo of the (G8-148) flight which took off for Delhi from here at 8:20pm on Sunday. After it had flown around 100 nautical miles and was near Varanasi, the smoke alarms of the plane went off. On contacting the ATC, pilots were told to return to Ranchi. Although no passenger was informed of the smoke detection in the cargo of the flight, they suspected some foul play when the flight went on its reverse journey.
04/12/12 Times of India
