Mumbai: An Air India Express Mumbai-Dubai flight made an emergency landing at Mumbai Airport here on Sunday afternoon, officials said. The flight IX-247 took off for Dubai around 1.15 pm, but barely 30 minutes later, returned to land with full emergency at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. The aircraft[Read More…]
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Air India Express plane may have overshot runway before takeoff
Chennai, Oct 14 (IANS) The Dubai-bound Air India Express Boeing plane seems to have overshot the normal take-off point as tyre marks have been found between the end of the runway and the compound wall of the Trichy airport in Tamil Nadu, officials said on Sunday. The airport officials also[Read More…]
Air India plane survives disaster after hitting wall
Trichy/Mumbai: Passengers and crew on board an Air India Express flight from Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu to Dubai escaped a disaster early on Friday when the aircraft’s wheels hit the airport’s outer wall while taking off. Although parts of the Boeing B737-800’s undercarriage were damaged, the pilots, unaware of the[Read More…]
IndiGo to acquire Air India’s international ops, Air India Express
IndiGo on Thursday has said that it is planning to start low-cost long haul international flights. It is also planning to buy Air India’s overseas operations. A week after expressing interest in buying out the operations of debt-laden Air India, IndiGo’s founders, Rahul Bhatia and Rakesh Gangwal, laid out the[Read More…]