Pune: More than 100 passengers on board an IndiGo flight from Pune to Nagpur suffered a mid-air scare after the aircraft, an A320neo powered with Pratt and Whitney engines, was diverted back to Pune soon after take-off.
The flight, according to the sources in the Pune airport, had taken off at around 11:15am from Pune. “The flight, according to the schedule, had to take off from Pune at 11:05am and land in Nagpur at around 12:30pm. However, only some minutes after the flight took off, the pilot noticed a snag in one of its engines and the flight had to return,” an airport official said.
IndiGo, in its statement, said that soon after taking off, the commander of the aircraft, noticed an engine caution message. “IndiGo A320 operating 6E-134 Pune-Nagpur. After take-off from Pune, pilot observed engine caution message. The aircraft returned to Pune. It is currently at Pune and being inspected by the technical team,” an airline spokesperson said.
Sources told TOI that the problem was detected in one of the two engines of the aircraft after which the decision to divert the flight back was taken by the pilot.
“We did feel one unusual vibrations in the aircraft soon after it took off. However, it was a shock when the pilot suddenly announced that due to a technical snag, the flight was returning to Pune. Though I cannot exactly state the timing, the whole thing happened around 10-15 minutes after the take off,” a passenger who requested anonymity, said.
02/04/19 Joy Sengupta/Times of India
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The flight, according to the sources in the Pune airport, had taken off at around 11:15am from Pune. “The flight, according to the schedule, had to take off from Pune at 11:05am and land in Nagpur at around 12:30pm. However, only some minutes after the flight took off, the pilot noticed a snag in one of its engines and the flight had to return,” an airport official said.
IndiGo, in its statement, said that soon after taking off, the commander of the aircraft, noticed an engine caution message. “IndiGo A320 operating 6E-134 Pune-Nagpur. After take-off from Pune, pilot observed engine caution message. The aircraft returned to Pune. It is currently at Pune and being inspected by the technical team,” an airline spokesperson said.
Sources told TOI that the problem was detected in one of the two engines of the aircraft after which the decision to divert the flight back was taken by the pilot.
“We did feel one unusual vibrations in the aircraft soon after it took off. However, it was a shock when the pilot suddenly announced that due to a technical snag, the flight was returning to Pune. Though I cannot exactly state the timing, the whole thing happened around 10-15 minutes after the take off,” a passenger who requested anonymity, said.
02/04/19 Joy Sengupta/Times of India
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