A Delhi-bound flight caught hearth quickly after taking off on Sunday from Patna airport the place it made an emergency touchdown after hovering for a number of minutes within the air, an official stated.
The Spicejet plane took off at round 12.10 pm, and in response to residents of localities adjoining to the airport, who claimed to have witnessed the spectacle, it caught hearth instantly.
Not one of the passengers have been damage. Their journey to Delhi is being organized by another plane. What triggered the hearth is a matter of investigation,” an official informed reporters.
Passengers, who had an in depth shave, stated they felt tremors contained in the aircraft quickly after the take off and the lights began turning off.
We raised an alarm. The crew members requested us to maintain calm and that an emergency touchdown was being made,” they stated.
Fireplace engines had been deployed on the airstrip the place the emergency touchdown was made although the flames had, by then, come underneath management.
