KARACHI 17 July (Online): An Indian airliner carrying 186 passengers from Sharjah made an emergency landing at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport (the second such incident this month) after reporting a “technical defect” in the wee hours of Sunday, Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) spokesman Saifur Rehman said.<\/p>\n
The IndiGo airline plane, which was bound for Hyderabad Deccan, landed “safely” at the Karachi airport after seeking permission from the air control tower at 2:14am, the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n
The passengers were allowed to disembark the plane and were taken to the transit lounge.<\/p>\n
An alternative aircraft of the Indian airline has reached the Karachi airport from Ahmedabad to take passengers to their destination after fulfilling the necessary formalities.<\/p>\n
“It will take an hour or so to complete the process,” the CAA spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the airliner IndiGo issued a statement saying that its flight 6E-1406 heading from Sharjah to Hyderabad Deccan was diverted to Karachi after the pilot “observed a technical defect”.<\/p>\n
“Necessary procedures were followed and as a precaution, the aircraft was diverted to Karachi.\u201d the airline added.<\/p>\n
It also said the aircraft was currently being examined at the Karachi airport.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, a Dubai-bound flight carrying nearly 100 passengers from New Delhi had also made an emergency landing at the Karachi airport after it reported an “oil leak”.<\/p>\n
SpiceJet had confirmed the development on its Twitter handle, but insisted that there was no emergency declared as the landing was normal.<\/p>\n
The Directorate General Of Civil Aviation was quoted as saying that the pilots had observed an unusual reduction in fuel quantity and suspected a leak.<\/p>\n
However, no evidence of the fuel leak was found after the aircraft landed.<\/p>\n
A day later, India’s aviation regulator had issued a warning notice to SpiceJet after a review of recent incidents \u2014 including an aircraft’s emergency landing at Karachi airport \u2014 showed “poor internal safety oversight and inadequate maintenance actions” by the airline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KARACHI 17 July (Online): An Indian airliner carrying 186 passengers from Sharjah made an emergency landing at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport (the second such incident this month) after reporting a “technical defect” in the wee hours of Sunday, Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) spokesman Saifur Rehman […]<\/p>\n
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