Air India flight with 144 passengers makes emergency landing at Silchar

New Delhi: A Kolkata-bound Air India flight with 144 passengers on board made an emergency landing minutes after taking off from the Kumbhirgram Airport in Silchar after one of its landing gears malfunctioned. The plane was forced to land immediately after take-off after a snag was noticed in one of its rear wheels. According to reports, smoke billowed from one of the rear landing gears. The flight returned to Silchar Kumbhirgram airport soon after it took off.

PK Gorai, the airport director, said the pilot detected the glitch along with a hydraulic leak. “...the pilot...landed the plane back at the Silchar airport. A full emergency was declared at the airport and the flight also suffered landing gear



failure.”

The defence airport in Silchar is partially being used for domestic purposes. A greenfield airport is proposed to be built in the region. An aviation ministry team recently visited Cachar to find land for the proposed airport.

Earlier on October 22, a Delhi-bound Vistara flight was diverted to Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International Airport in Madhya Pradesh's Indore after a passenger complained of breathlessness and fainted .

In June this year, a Saudi-bound Air India Express flight from Thiruvananthapuram made an emergency landing after being airborne for less than an hour when the pilots detected a crack in the windshield.