Air India flight from Singapore makes emergency landing

A Chennai-bound Air India flight from Singapore with 132 passengers onboard today landed under emergency conditions at the airport here with a burst rear tyre.

The plane made a safe landing at the Meenambakkam airport and all the passengers were safe, airport sources said.

The tyre had burst when the A 319 aircraft was taking off at the Singapore airport, they said.

Singapore airport officials, who found some pieces of tyres on the runway after the flight had taken off, had alerted the pilot about the tyre burst.

The pilot had then informed the Chennai air traffic controller (ATC) about the suspected tyre burst, they said.

Consequently, arrangements were made for the safe landing of the flight and the flight made a safe touch down ten minutes behind it scheduled arrival time, they said.

After the aircraft landed, officials found that one of tyres of the main undercarriage had burst.

The aircraft was towed to an adjacent bay to set right the problem, they said.