AI flight suffers bird hit, passengers safe

Chandigarh: An Air India Mumbai-Delhi-Chandigarh flight with 153 passengers on board suffered a bird hit after it landed at the airport here.

The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon when the nose wheel of the aircraft got entangled with an eagle, Airport Director Sunil Dutt said.

All the passengers aboard were safe, he said.

The plane was towed towards the terminal before the passengers could alight from it.

The aircraft was being repaired here itself by a team from Mumbai, officials said.

On August 28, an Indigo flight to Delhi suffered a bird hit and had to made an emergency landing at Bhubaneswar airport about 30 minutes after take off.