Double bother: IndiGo, Air India flights safely return to airports after snags reported

IndiGo and Air India on Friday confronted double bother when their plane, on totally different routes, encountered engine snags shortly after takeoff.

The IndiGo flight was on the home Patna-Delhi route, whereas the Air India plane was en route from Mumbai to London.

Fortuitously, each planes safely returned to the airports that they had taken off from.

“IndiGo flight 6E-2433 working from Patna to Delhi returned to origin resulting from a technical problem. Customary working procedures had been adopted to prioritise the touchdown and the plane landed safely at Patna,” mentioned the airline spokesperson.

“The plane is presently at Patna airport and present process inspection,” the IndiGo spokesperson added.

As per sources, there was an inflight shutdown of one in all its CFM LEAP engines, nevertheless, IndiGo’s Airbus A320 safely returned and landed again in Patna.

The plane was carrying roughly 190 passengers on the time of the incident.

Air India, in an announcement, mentioned that AI-131, working from Mumbai to London, air-returned and made a protected precautionary touchdown at Mumbai resulting from a suspected technical glitch.

“As Air India offers high precedence to questions of safety, the plane is present process thorough checks. Preparations for flying the passengers to their locations on the earliest are in course of,” mentioned the airline spokesperson.