Emergency landing by flight to Chandigarh

Tribune News Service

Hyderabad, September 30

Over 100 passengers of a Jet Airways flight (9W 955) from Hyderabad to Chandigarh had a miraculous escape as the pilot managed to land the plane at Indore after one of its engines failed.

There were 103 persons on board (96 passengers and seven crew), all of whom were evacuated after the landing.

According to Indore airport director A Sanyal, the Boeing 737 aircraft was flying at an altitude of 36,000 feet at a speed of 850 km per hour when the pilot informed the Indore Air Traffic Control (ATC) about the engine failure.

The flight had taken off from Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at 10.48 am. The plane developed a snag after about 82 minutes and it landed at Indore at 12.06 pm.

This is the second incident involving the Jet Airways flight over the last one week.