New Delhi/Bengaluru:
Air India’s Bengaluru-Delhi flight made emergency landing at the Delhi airport on Thursday night following an engine fire warning. All 180 passengers and crew on board safely deboarded.
A source said pilots of AI’s A321 received a fire warning just before landing around 9.30pm. The same was extinguished after landing. The aircraft was towed from the IGI Airport runway. A DGCA team has launched a probe into the incident.
The emergency landing comes barely hours after another AI flight on Delhi-Bengaluru route suffered a tail strike at KIA.
About the Delhi incident, AI said in a statement that the crew followed all standard operating procedures and landed the aircraft safely at the airport.