Emergency landing of Surat – Delhi Indigo flight at SVPI airport in Ahmedabad

Surat: An Indigo flight 6E 646 connecting Surat to Delhi had an emergency landing at SVPI airport in Ahmedabad today afternoon due to a bird hit.

According to a passenger Nakul Patil who was on the flight, the flight took off from Surat airport at the scheduled time of 8.30 am and left for Delhi, but there was so much unusual noise in the flight within 15-2- minutes of taking off, and the seat belt alert was continued. In around half an hour, the flight had an emergency landing at SVPI airport in Ahmedabad. The passengers had to sit in the plane for around three hours. An announcement was meanwhile made, that the flight had suffered a bird hit and it had an emergency landing at SVPI airport for technical checking for the flightworthiness of the plane.

The aircraft was subsequently found unfit to fly further to Delhi and the passengers were deboarded at SVPI airport to change the plane. The passengers were later taken to Delhi via another flight of Indigo. The passengers arrived at Delhi airport at around 1.30 pm. DeshGujarat