JetLite plane suffers bird hit in Lucknow, aborted

A JetLite plane with 144 passengers and crew members on board suffered a bird hit while taxiing at the runway at the airport in Lucknow this morning, forcing it to abort take off.

The Lucknow-Delhi flight S2138 was taxiing on the runway when it suffered a bird-hit at 7.20am, an airline spokesperson said, adding, all the passengers and crew members were safe.

The aircraft, a Boeing 737, then returned to the bay. Engineers are inspecting the damage.

"We are accomodating all passengers in another flight," the spokesperson said.