A Singapore-Mumbai Vistara flight returned to the Changi airport here on Wednesday after a technical snag was detected in one of the engines of the Airbus A321 aircraft. An airline official gave this information.
“As a precautionary measure, the pilots decided to turn back and landed the plane safely at Changi Airport,” the Straits Times newspaper quoted a Vistara spokesperson as saying.
The spokesman said that shortly after take-off from here, a technical snag was detected in one of the engines of the aircraft.
According to the FlightRadar website, flight UK106 left Singapore at around 11am (local time). It was then seen circling over Malaysia before returning to the airport.
The Singapore daily quoted the spokesperson as saying that most of the passengers have been transferred to other flights scheduled to take off on the same day.
Although Vistara did not specify how many passengers were on board, its website states that the Airbus A321 in its fleet can seat 188 passengers.
Some passengers were transferred to a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight scheduled for departure on Wednesday evening. According to media reports, they were also given food vouchers.
The latest glitch comes a week after another Vistara flight from Delhi had to turn back after a fault was detected. On 9 January, a Bhubaneshwar-bound flight carrying 140 passengers from India’s capital made an emergency landing in Delhi after experiencing hydraulic failure.
India’s aviation watchdog, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, has launched an investigation into the incident. Vistara is a joint venture between Tata Sons and SIA.