Chennai-Bound Domestic Flight Makes Emergency Landing After Tyre Burst
All the passengers and the crew are safe, and they deplaned safely upon landing, they said.
A Chennai-bound flight from Jaipur, before the scheduled landing, experienced a tyre burst on Sunday morning, and authorities facilitated an emergency landing for the aircraft, airport officials said.
All the passengers and the crew are safe, and they deplaned safely upon landing, they said.
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Before landing, the pilot detected the tyre-burst and alerted authorities, and they acted as per norms for landing under such circumstances.
“Upon visual inspection of the aircraft, wheel no 2 was found damaged with trye pieces coming out from the tyre-left interior", officials said.
Earlier, on March 29, tragedy struck on IndiGo flight 6E 2163 from Patna to Delhi when a passenger, Satish Chandra Burman, a resident of Nalbari, Assam, suffered a sudden medical emergency mid-flight, resulting in his unfortunate demise. The aircraft made an emergency landing in Lucknow in response to the crisis.
Burman’s health deteriorated rapidly during the flight, and the crew was promptly alerted. Upon receiving the information, the pilot was informed that a potential heart attack could have caused the passenger’s sudden illness.
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