IndiGo flight makes emergency landing at Hyderabad

October 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - A British Airways Mumbai-London flight with 207 passengers on board made an emergency landing here early Thursday following a fire warning in the cockpit, an official said. The captain of the BA-138 flight, which took off from the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport at 3 a.m., heard a fire alarm in the cockpit about 30 minutes after take-off.

September 15th, 2009 MUMBAI - A Kingfisher Airlines flight to Bangalore returned minutes after take-off from here Tuesday when a technical snag was detected, an airport official said. Flight IT 103, with 80 passengers on board, took off from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Interantional Airport shortly after 9 a.m.

September 3rd, 2009 KARACHI - An Emirates flight carrying Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna made an emergency landing at the Jinnah International Airport here Thursday night, a media report said.

September 1st, 2009 HYDERABAD - A tragedy was averted after a Delhi-bound Indigo Airlines aircraft made an emergency landing here on Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock. The plane had to made the landing after smoke was noticed coming out of the aircraft.

August 15th, 2009 KOLKATA - A Hyderabad-bound Air India aircraft with 28 passengers on board had to head back and make a 'precautionary' landing after a technical alarm bell went off minutes after it had taken off from here Saturday, an official said. "The flight took off at 5.14 p.m.

August 15th, 2009 KOLKATA - A Hyderabad-bound Air India aircraft with 28 passengers on board had to head back and make an emergency landing after a technical alarm bell went off minutes after it had taken off from here Saturday, an official said. "The flight took off at 5.14 pm from the N.S.C.

August 13th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Private carrier Jet Airways will launch a daily flight on the Hyderabad-Dubai sector from Aug 16, a senior official said here Thursday. The new flight using Boeing 737-800 aircraft will be Jet Airways' first international service from Hyderabad and its second daily service to Dubai from South India.

August 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Continental Airlines jet was forced to make an emergency landing in Miami Monday after encountering fierce turbulence that injured nearly 40 people. Flight 128 was on its way from Rio de Janeiro to Houston Intercontinental Airport in Texas and was southeast of Puerto Rico at an altitude of about 10,973 metres when it encountered the turbulence, which was not part of a storm system, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A passenger on board an IndiGo Airlines flight from Delhi to Mumbai created a scare Thursday when he falsely claimed there was a bomb in the aircraft and asked the crew to divert the plane to Pakistan. According to a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) official, the passenger, later identified as Sanjay Malik, created panic at around 11.45 a.m.

July 14th, 2009 CHARLESTON - A Southwest Airlines plane with 131 people on board made an emergency landing in Charleston, West Virginia Monday after a hole appeared in the fuselage. No one was injured in the incident on the flight from Nashville to Baltimore, a spokeswoman for the airline told CNN.

July 4th, 2009 MUMBAI - Passengers aboard a Saudia airliner on a Jeddah-Mumbai flight had a scare when its tyres burst during landing at Mumbai airport Saturday evening, an official said. The Saudia flight, SV-744, was landing around 6.30 p.m.

June 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An Air India flight to Hyderabad made an emergency landing here Monday, an hour after taking off from the Indira Gandhi International Airport. The airline said all passengers were flown to their destinations in another aircraft.

June 10th, 2009 HALIFAX - An American Airlines plane with 206 people on board made an emergency landing in Canada because of a fire in a toilet, a television channel reported. The Boeing 767-300 was flying from New York to Zurich Tuesday evening when smoke started to pour out of a toilet into the passenger cabin, CTV said.

April 28th, 2009 Indonesian military plane makes emergency landingSEMARANG, Indonesia — Officials say an Indonesian military plane was forced to land in a river after engine failure. No one was hurt.

March 21st, 2009 HYDERABAD - Air India will introduce a daily Hyderabad-Chicago flight via Delhi and Frankfurt March 29, an official said here Friday. Air India deputy general manager (commercial) Ashok Kumar told reporters here that the flight will depart from Hyderabad at 9 p.m.