Yesterday (June 20) a total of 3 flights made emergency landing in the country. Later in the evening, an IndiGo flight from Guwahati to Delhi made an emergency landing at Guwahati airport just after takeoff. The cause of the accident is said to be a bird collision. All the passengers of the Delhi bound flight were then transferred to another flight while the aircraft was taken for inspection. “Guwahati-Delhi to Indigo Airbus A320neo (VT-ITB) operating flight 6E 6394 returned to Guwahati airport after takeoff due to a suspicious bird collision. All passengers were accommodated on another flight to Delhi. being kept on the ground. Necessary inspection,” IndiGo officials said in a statement.
This was the third such incident in a day when a flight made an emergency landing. Earlier on Sunday evening a Jabalpur-bound SpiceJet The flight returned to Delhi airport after it failed to regain the cabin pressure difference even after achieving an altitude of 6,000 feet. According to a statement by an airline spokesperson, the cabin pressure differential could not be made up because the cabin height was raised above the ground.
Earlier, in another airline-related incident, a SpiceJet Boeing 737 carrying around 185 people on Sunday returned to Patna soon after an emergency landing following reports of an engine fire.
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) officials said the aircraft (VT-SYZ), prima facie, was involved in an air turnback after the cabin crew had informed the PIC about sparks emanating from the engine. During rotation, the cockpit crew suspected a bird hit on the engine. Later, the crew noticed no abnormalities and the flight resumed climb. “The flight returned after being hit by a bird and with one engine shut in the air, all passengers on board were safe,” officials said.
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A Delhi-bound SpiceJet plane made an emergency landing at Patna airport on Sunday afternoon after a technical snag was reported, which led to a fire inside the plane. All the passengers have been rescued safely.
Chandrashekhar Singh said, “The flight to Delhi had returned to Patna airport after the local people caught fire in the plane and informed the district and airport authorities. All the 185 passengers were disembarked safely. The reason is a technical fault, the engineering team is doing further analysis,” Chandrashekhar Singh said. The District Magistrate of Patna told the media persons.
ANI. with inputs