Highlight
- Complete emergency was declared at Kochi airport after a hydraulic failure in flight from UAE
- Air Arabia plane landed safely from Sharjah, all passengers, crew members safe
- Kochi airport withdraws emergency, resumes normal operations
Air Arabia Flight Emergency: A total emergency was declared for an Air Arabia flight from Sharjah to Kochi following a hydraulic failure. The plane landed safely at Kochi airport.
The Cochin International Airport Authority said that all 222 passengers and 7 crew members are safe.
Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) said, “Full emergency was declared at Kochi airport on Friday following an incident of hydraulic failure on an Air Arabia flight coming from Sharjah. All passengers and crew were safe.”
In a message to the media, CIAL said, “A hydraulic fault was reported in Air Arabia G9-426, which was to land at Cochin at 19:13 hrs, following which a total emergency was declared at the airport.
“The aircraft landed safely on runway 9 at 19:29 a.m.,” CIAL said, adding that only towing was required and the emergency would be withdrawn after an endurance period of one hour and 50 minutes.
CIAL said that all including 222 passengers and seven crew members are safe.
However, there was no immediate response from the airline.
Following the incident, operations at the Cochin airport have resumed. The first flight took off from IndiGo to Chennai. At 8:22 a full emergency was withdrawn.
,With inputs from PTI,