Air India flight makes emergency landing in Kochi

An Air India flight landed on Saturday night at Kochi airport after the pilot detected problem in its nose wheel, airline sources said.

The pilot of the Delhi-Kochi-Thiruvananthapuram flight, carrying 60 passengers from Delhi, informed airport authorities that there was some problem with the nose wheel and asked permission for emergency landing.

The flight landed safely at 8.30 pm, the sources said.

Passengers to Thiruvananthapuam would be taken by road, they said.