Saturday, July 13, 2019

FedEx flight makes emergency landing

Bengaluru: Operations on the lone runway at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) were suspended for 20 minutes when a FedEx cargo flight from Dubai made an emergency landing in Bengaluru after developing a technical snag on Thursday.
The runway was closed from 8.34pm to 8.54pm on Thursday. Eight arrivals and seven departures were delayed due to the incident, while one flight was diverted to Chennai, said Bangalore International Airport Limited, operator of KIA.
The FedEx flight was originally supposed to land at the Bengaluru airport around 9pm. The freighter took off from Dubai at 3.43pm and was in the air for nearly three hours before the snag was noticed and pilots made an emergency landing around 8.50pm. Passengers scheduled to fly to Bengaluru were left stranded, while several others had to wait for their departing flights. The delayed flights included Vistara flight UK 866 to Mumbai, IndiGo 6E 149 to Hyderabad, Spice-Jet SG 198 to New Delhi, Air Asia I5 1328 to Goa, Emirates EK 567 to Dubai, Go Air G8 118 to Delhi, IndiGo 6E 73 to Singapore and Indi-Go 6E 316 to Kochi among others.
13/07/19 Times of India
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