Monday, September 12, 2016

Royal Nepal flight makes emergency landing at IGI Airport

Royal Nepal flight makes emergency
landing at IGI Airport

New Delhi: A Royal Nepal Airlines Delhi-Kathmandu flight carrying 160 passengers made an emergency landing at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport here late Sunday, 11th September 2016  evening, said airport sources. All passengers and crew were safe.
According to airport sources, the flight took off from the IGI Airport at 8 p.m. for Kathmandu. "Due to a techical glitch the flight had to return back to IGI Airport and landed back around 8.30 p.m.," a source said.
Soon after the landing, a tyre burst occurred, forcing the aircraft to stop on the taxi-way, sources added..
"The aircraft landed at runway number 28. At the time of taxiing, a tyre burst occurred," said a source.

The taxi-way was unserviceable after the incident for some time but airport operations remained normal.
  

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