SpiceJet flight makes emergency landing, passengers safe

In the third air incident at Mumbai in four days, a SpiceJet flight from Bangalore with 137 passengers and crew on board landed at the airport here today under emergency conditions.

All the passengers and crew were safe, a Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport spokesperson said.

The pilot of SpiceJet's Bangalore-Mumbai flight (SG 344) was preparing to land around 12 noon when he noticed some indicators in the cockpit going off pointing to some problems with the aircraft's landing gear.

"The pilot then decided to make a go-around and asked for priority landing," a SpiceJet spokesperson told PTI.

"The ATC declared full emergency at the Airport for the flight at 1215 hrs. The flight made a safe landing at 1221 hours. All the 137 passengers were deplaned safely," an airport spokesperson said.

Yesterday, Turkish Airlines flight TK970 from Istanbul to Mumbai veered off the rapid exit taxiway after landing and is still stuck in mud close to the main runway, hitting flight operations.

Apart from this, on Wednesday, an Air India plane from Jeddah with 286 passengers and crew, landed under emergency conditions at Mumbai airport following suspected hydraulic failure.

The previous day, an Air India plane with 123 on board had to make a landing under similar conditions at Thiruvananthapuram after a defect was detected in its hydraulic system.

On Monday, a Gulf Air plane with 137 on board, had skidded off the runway and got stuck in the mud at Kochi airport in bad weather, injuring seven passengers.