An IndiGo spokesperson said, "IndiGo A320 was operating Chennai-Kuwait 6E-1751. After take-off from Chennai, the pilot observed a momentary message of the smoke detector in the aft cargo compartment."
An Army helicopter made a forced landing in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch on Thursday. The aircraft was carrying Army Commander Northern Army Commander Lt Gen Ranbir Singh and seven others.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's chopper made an emergency landing in Rewari's KLP College due to bad weather. He was on his way to Delhi from Mahendragarh after addressing an election rally.
According to some media reports, the left engine of the IndiGo flight had caught fire midair.
A helicopter, which was carrying Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, made an emergency landing in Lakhimpur earlier on Monday.
The plane made an emergency landing at around 8:45 am in Kathmandu after the pilot reported that an engine on the aircraft had failed, TIA Managing Director Raj Kumar Chhetri said.
The incident was reported at around 8:21 pm after flight Alliance Air - 9643, from Delhi to Jaipur developed landing gear problems and returned to Delhi Airport.
The plane suffered a bird hit shortly after takeoff, which caused engine trouble. Following the bird hit, the crew decided to land the plane immediately. The plane landed in the corn field about a kilometre from the runway, with its engines off and landing gear retracted.
A full emergency was declared at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport as the flight returned and landed safely on a single engine around 4.50 p.m.
Jaipur-bound Indigo flight from Mumbai landed under full emergency conditions, an official said.
The IndiGo flight from Hyderabad to Guwahati landed at Biju Patnaik International Airport after it was diverted under emergency protocol.
The flight landed safely. Nobody was injured in the incident and all 170 passengers were safely disembarked, they said.
Passengers were not allowed to de-board the plane for over 3 hours after which they lodged a protest with the authorities.
A mid-air medical emergency on board a Yangon-bound Emirates Airlines flight from Dubai forced the aircraft to divert to the city airport here on Saturday where it made a priority landing, a statement said.
"There was loss of oil in the one of the engines which led to its mid-air failure and the subsequent emergency landing of the plane," the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) official said.
The woman delivered the baby girl when the aircraft was around 40 minutes away from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.
At least 30 passengers suffered ear and nose-bleed soon after the flight 9W 697 took off from Mumbai as the cabin crew forgot to select the switch which maintains cabin pressure.
However, an IndiGo spokesperson said there was no tyre burst and the aircraft did not make an emergency landing.
All passengers were accommodated on alternate flights upon landing, the flight statement said.
The boy was taken to a private hospital upon landing, where the doctors declared him brought dead.
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