Daijiworld Media Network
Mumbai, Sep 3: Yet another incident of emergency landing has been reported, the third within a week. Readers may recall that two Air India flights had made emergency landings earlier due to reported hydraulic failure.
On Saturday September 3 a Mumbai-bound SpiceJet flight carrying 136 passengers from Bangalore made an emergency landing in Mumbai airport following hydraulic failure again.
The flight landed at 12.20 pm on Saturday, with all the passengers safe on board.
On August 30, Chennai-Bangalore-Thiruvananthapuram Air India flight made had to land in an emergency situation at Thiruvananthapuram for the same reason, and the very next day, a Jeddah-Mumbai flight was in a similar situation at Mumbai airport.
A Mumbai airport official speaking to daijiworld.com said that full emergency had been declared and all emergency procedures were activated by the Mumbai Airport Authority at the airport.
Due to heavy rains in Mumbai and some southern states of the country, several flights have been facing problems in landing, and several flights have been diverted to nearby airports.
On Friday September 2, a Turkish Airlines flight also veered off Mumbai airport's taxiway, with no casualties reported.
At Kochi airport, a Gulf Air flight skid off the runway on August 30, injuring seven and damaging the flight. Luckily, no one was killed.