Monday, June 29, 2009

Air India flight makes emergency landing in Delhi


An Air India flight to Hyderabad made an emergency landing in Delhi on Monday, an hour after taking off from the Indira Gandhi International Airport, when the pilot reported a technical snag. The Delhi-Hyderabad-Tirupati Air India flight 942, carrying 75 passengers, made an emergency landing at 11.40 a.m., said a spokesperson of the Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) that operates the Delhi airport. "All passengers are safe," he said and added that there were some problems in the hydraulic system of the aircraft. An Air India spokesperson said the pilot had decided to come back to Delhi midway as a precautionary measure as he suspected a technical snag.

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