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Monday 9 July 2012

Air India plane makes emergency landing in Pakistan

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Air India plane makes emergency landing in Pakistan
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New Delhi, July 09 (CMC) An Air India Airbus A-319 made an emergency landing at Pakistan's Nawab Shah airport in Sindh province while flying from Abu Dhabi to Delhi.
The commander decided to make the unscheduled stop in Pakistan after suspecting hydraulic failure in the Airbus, which was an endemic problem in its old generation A-320s.
All the three hydraulic systems are learnt to have failed on this aircraft.
Luckily the plane landed safely and all the 122 passengers and 6 crew members are learnt to be unhurt.
"We are sending a relief aircraft at 10.45am to bring back the passengers to Delhi. A technical team is also being sent to Pakistan to assess the aircraft and bring it back to Delhi as a ferry flight," said AI spokesman GP Rao.
The A-319, operating as AI 940 on the Abu Dhabi-Delhi sector, left Gulf at about 5am and made the emergency landing at 5.45am (all local timings), said Rao. There is no clarity on whether the passengers spent the night inside the aircraft or were allowed to go to the terminal building.
The relief aircraft is expected to reach Delhi around 2pm. The DGCA is probing the incident.

1 comment:

  1. Air India is an old age airlines and needs to be updated.

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