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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