A Delhi-bound IndiGo flight from Raipur, with 170 passengers and crew members on board, was forced to land at the IGI Airport on Saturday after a crack was detected on its windshield by the pilot.
A Delhi-bound IndiGo flight from Raipur, with 170 passengers and crew members on board, was forced to land at the IGI Airport on Saturday after a crack was detected on its windshield by the pilot. However, IndiGo airline said there was no report of a windshield crack on the plane.
The airline said that hydraulic system low pressure was detected after which the pilot asked for an emergency landing. According to sources, the pilot informed the Delhi air traffic control, following which full emergency conditions were declared at the airport. The Delhi ATC declared local stand-by for the flight and the flight landed safely on runway 27/09.
“IndiGo flight 6E 454 from Raipur to Delhi was detected with the hydraulic system low pressure. The captain-in-command immediately alerted the air traffic control, and as a precautionary measure asked for a longer vector so that he could configure himself for an early landing at the IGI Airport. The ATC permitted the approach and therefore a normal landing was carried out at. As per the design of the aircraft, the hydraulic system redundancy permits a normal landing in a situation such as this. Hence, the aircraft was taxied and parked at the bay normally. There was no report of windshield crack on the flight,” said an IndiGo spokesperson.
In another incident on Monday, at about 7.20 am, due to some technical problem, a local standby was declared for an Air India flight AI-469 at around 6.05 am from Delhi to Nagpur. There were 147 people, including seven crew members, on board the flight. The flight landed safely at runway No. 29/11 at 07.29 am.
Earlier on December 20, 2115, a Lucknow-bound Air India flight from IGI Airport, with 60 passengers on board, had to be returned after take-off due to a crack in the windshield of the aircraft.
