After several incidents of emergency landing, a Guwahati-bound SpiceJet flight on June 25 had to take off from Patna’s Jai Prakash Narayan International Airport due to some technical glitch. Former Bihar MLA Bunty Choudhary, who was one of the passengers of the flight, uploaded a video on social media.
“The flight was on the runway and about to take off when the pilots detected a technical fault and immediately applied the brakes. The flight was immediately diverted to the Gulf region and the passengers were offloaded,” Chowdhury said in his video statement. ” ,
Later another flight was arranged for the passengers and she went to Guwahati. Bunty Choudhary along with his supporters was going to Guwahati to offer prayers to Mother Kamakhya.
Earlier on June 19, another SpiceJet flight bound for Delhi had made an emergency landing at Patna airport. The left engine of the flight carrying 185 passengers, 4 crew members and 2 pilots was damaged during take-off by a bird hit.
The aircraft had reached an altitude of 2,000 feet. The pilot immediately called ATC for an emergency landing. As smoke was coming from the left wing, the onlookers also informed the local police who further communicated with ATC and the pilot was informed about the fire in the left engine.
Pilot Monika Khanna immediately shut down the left engine to control the aircraft and managed to land safely.
(With inputs from IANS)