New Delhi: It was a "scary" experience for 122 passengers on board an Air India plane from Abu Dhabi when it landed at a Pakistani airport early Monday morning following a "false alarm" about hydraulic failure, and relief was writ large on their faces as they returned home on Monday evening.
15-year-old Muskan Sharma, who was travelling alone from Toronto to Delhi via Abu Dhabi, said, "I was scared as to what may happen when we were told that our aircraft has developed some problem."
Sharma had a confirmed ticket from Toronto to Delhi on a direct Air India flight, which was cancelled, after which she was accommodated in this flight.
Narrating his experience, V Radhakrishnan (65) said they were told "not to move around, to fasten the seat belt and be prepared for anything" as the plane was making a landing in emergency conditions....
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09:38 PM, Jul 09, 2012
The passengers, after reaching India following an emergency landing in Pakistan, said the authorities of both the countries and Air India officials were very helpful. ...
08:39 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Islamabad/Lahore: An Air India relief plane has flown back to India with 122 passengers of another flight that made an emergency landing in Pakistan's southern Sindh province early Monday morning after its alarm light started blipping. The Air India Airbus A320 sent to pick up the stranded passengers took off from Nawabshah airport in Sindh shortly after 3 pm, Pakistani officials said. A team of engineers flew in on the...
05:14 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: Air India engineers, who were flown to Nawabshah airport in Pakistan to attend to an Airbus A-319 that had landed under emergency conditions on Monday, have found that the cockpit panel had emitted a "false alarm" about a technical problem. "There was nothing wrong with the hydraulic system of the aircraft and, apparently the cockpit panel emitted false alarm making red lights to blip," airline officials said. "However,...
04:41 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: An Air India plane made an emergency landing in Pakistan's Sindh province at the Nawabshah Airport on Monday morning at 3:30 am. The Airbus 319 was on its way from Abu Dhabi to New Delhi and was carrying 130 passengers, who were reportedly safe. An Air India relief plane reached Sindh with a team of engineers to repair the aircraft. It is carrying meals for the passengers. Light...
02:12 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: A relief plane, with a technical team on board, reached the Nawabshah airport in Sindh in Pakistan on Monday afternoon after an Air India plane made an emergency landing there at 3:30 am. The flight, Airbus 319, was on its way from Abu Dhabi to New Delhi when it was forced to land after all its three hydraulic systems failed. Local media reports said all 130 passengers on...
02:03 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: An Air India plane made an emergency landing at Nawabshah airport in Sindh in Pakistan on Monday at 3:30 am. The flight, Airbus 319, was on its way from Abu Dhabi to New Delhi. Local media reports say all 130 passengers on board the Air India flight were still inside the plane, but were safe. The flight was forced to land after all its three hydraulic systems failed....
08:58 AM, Jul 09, 2012
