NEW DELHI: An Amritsar-bound Vistara flight made an emergency and safe landing soon after taking off at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Thursday morning due to a technical snag in the aircraft. Officials said that there were nearly 146 passengers on the flight when it took off from the Indira Gandhi International Airport for Amritsar.
The snag was detected soon after taking off the flight, following which the pilot immediately contacted the airport authorities for assistance. A senior police official said they received a call regarding the emergency landing at 10:15 am on Thursday. The emergency was sounded at runway number 28 of terminal number 2 of the airport – which is bound for domestic flights.