Caught in big jet’s turbulence, IndiGo’s A320 gets momentary engine stall warning

NEW DELHI: A relatively smaller plane on Monday safely witnessed first hand the impact of passing through aerial turbulence caused by a bigger aircraft. An IndiGo flight winging its way from Guwahati to Mumbai got an engine stall warning when the Airbus A320 came into the “wake turbulence” — the aerial equivalence of a boat creating turbulence in water as it sails — of an Emirates Boeing 777 aircraft that was flying in the opposite direction (west to east). The A320ceo (VT-IFV) was cruising at 36,000 feet as 6E-6812.

“Due to the turbulence, IndiGo flight got an engine 1 stall warning. The warning soon disappeared. No abnormality was observed in any other parameter and the aircraft safely continued to the destination,” said people in the know.