An Amritsar-bound Vistara flight, carrying 146 passengers, was forced to return to the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport on Thursday morning after the pilot detected a snag on the aircraft.
Airline sources said the glitch was detected within half an hour of the flight taking off and the pilot immediately requested that the flight be granted priority landing at the Delhi airport. A call was also received by the Delhi Police at 10:15am about the flight being turned around for emergency landing, and the fire brigade was also put on standby as a precautionary measure.
“The flight finally landed on runway 28/10, where six fire engines were standing on alert. There was no damage to the aircraft nor was any passenger injured,” the airline official said, asking not to be named. The official, however, did not say what the glitch was.
