NEW DELHI: Yet another IndiGo flight had to return to its origin city soon after take off in the early hours of Friday. However, this time the \u201cAir turn back\u201d was not due to engine snag but a fire alarm that later, thankfully, turned out to be false.
\nThe flight, 6E-1751 took off after 1 am Friday from Chennai for Kuwait City. \u201cSoon after getting airborne, pilots got cargo smoke warning on the aircraft (VT-IJJ) which had over 160 people on board. They declared full emergency and landed back safely in Chennai within minutes of taking off off from there,\u201d said a senior official probing this incident.
\nAfter landing inspection of the aircraft revealed that the fire alam was a false one. \u201cUpon arrival no evidence of smoke was found and only passenger baggage was loaded in the aft cargo. Two smoke detectors were found to be faulty during troubleshooting. The aircraft is grounded in Chennai, awaiting arrival of spares from Delhi,\u201d added the official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Yet another IndiGo flight had to return to its origin city soon after take off in the early hours of Friday. However, this time the \u201cAir turn back\u201d was not due to engine snag but a fire alarm that later, thankfully, turned out to be false. The flight, 6E-1751 took off after 1 am Friday from Chennai for Kuwait City. \u201cSoon after getting airborne, pilots got cargo smoke warning on the aircraft (VT-IJJ) which had over 160 people on board. They declared full emergency and landed back safely in Chennai within minutes of taking off off from there,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}