The Mangaluru – Bengaluru Indigo flight was diverted to Dubai on Thursday, leaving passengers stranded at the airport in Karnataka’s coastal city. The passengers and their families have shared their harrowing experience with IndiGo (6E5347) flight on social media.
According to a report in Deccan Herald, a Dubai – bound Indigo flight had hit a bird while taking off from Mangaluru International Airport on Thursday at around 8.25 am. The aircraft that was carrying around 160 passengers was aborted and it returned to the airport, after pilot informed about the bird hit to Air Traffic Control (ATC). The aircraft was immediately sent to the engineering inspection.
The passengers were then asked to board to another aircraft which just arrived from Bengaluru and was supposed to fly back to the IT capital from Mangaluru.
