A Vistara flight bound to Amritsar made an emergency landing at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport today morning due to a technical snag. The Vistara flight, scheduled to fly to Amritsar, had 146 passengers on board when it took off from the Delhi Airport. Soon after the take-off, the pilot detected an issue following which immediate contact was made with the airport authorities. Initial reports suggest that the emergency was sounded at runway number 28 of terminal number 2 of Delhi Airport. An alarm was sounded and agencies such as the police and the fire brigade were called. It is also being said that, as per a senior police official, the call regarding the emergency landing came at 10:15 AM. Thankfully, no one has been hurt in this incident and six fire engines were rushed to the Indira Gandhi International airport.
Further details are awaited regarding the issue
This incident comes after a similar situation occurred in late October last year. A Delhi-bound Vistara flight was diverted to Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International Airport here after a passenger complained of breathlessness and fainted, an airport official had said. The Vistara flight UK-818, which took off from Bengaluru, landed in Indore at 9.30 pm on Thursday and the passenger was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was declared dead.
“Manoj Kumar Agrawal, who was travelling in Vistara’s flight, complained of breathlessness and fainted. The Bengaluru-Delhi flight landed under medical emergency around 9.30 pm at Indore airport after being diverted," the airport’s in-charge director Pramod Kumar Sharma had said. The passenger was rushed to Banthia Hospital here, where doctors declared him dead after an examination.
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“Agrawal succumbed on way to hospital from the airport and looking at his condition, it appears that he must have suffered a heart attack," the director of the hospital, Dr Sunil Banthia had said.
(WITH INPUTS FROM IANS AND PTI)
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