The officials said the management had to take a call to cancel the flight after the unforeseen incident. The flight will undergo a technical checkup to ensure safety, they added.
The Goa police received a formal complaint from the airport officials, and the bomb disposal squad was combing the area, a police official said.
Manohar International Airport: Newly inaugurated airport in Goa become operational today as it witnessed the first passenger flight arriving on Thursday.
Goa CM Sawant said that 34.24 percent of the airport project work has been completed by June 2021, but the airport project has faced a time and cost escalation due to "restraint by courts and pandemic".
Goa Airport on Tuesday announced that it had done away with a rule which laid down that domestic travelers must carry COVID-19 negative certificates on arrival.
In an initiative to boost the immunity of officials working at Dabolim airport in Goa, a medicated tea service has been started by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) in association with the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).
A "major accident" was averted on Tuesday morning at Goa airport when an alert runway controller noticed that a SpiceJet flight, on final approach, had not deployed its nose landing gear and it was forced to abort landing, said the Indian Navy spokesperson.
According to some media reports, the left engine of the IndiGo flight had caught fire midair.
"The excessively heavy monsoon this season has adversely affected the runway surface," the Indian Navy said.
"INS Hansa, along with the government of Goa, has taken proactive steps to remove stray dogs from vicinity of the runway," said a statement issued by the Indian Navy on Monday.
Take-off of Air Asia flight was aborted after the dog was spotted on the runway of Goa Airport. The take-off was delayed by nearly an hour
The Dabolim International Airport is the state's only airport and is operating out of the Indian naval base INS Hansa located near the port town of Vasco in South Goa. The statement issued by the Indian Navy also said that "proactive efforts" were being undertaken to reduce the stray dog menace near the airport's runway.
Even as the government pressed additional state transport corporation buses to facilitate pick up of tourists at the Dabolim International Airport, railway and bus stations, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant urged taxi operators to withdraw the strike.
Only airline passengers would have access to casinos at the upcoming Mopa international airport, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said in the Assembly on Monday. In a written reply to a question by BJP legislator Wilfred D'Sa, Sawant said 232 acres of land at the airport had been earmarked for commercial development.
However, it is not clear whether those caught sleeping in the airport's outer periphery were passengers who were stranded due to a flight delay or because of some other reasons.
Fire at Goa International Airport had caused suspension of flights arriving or departing from Goa. Services have now been resumed.
Goa airport fire latest updates: Fire at Goa International Airport had caused suspension of flights arriving or departing from Goa. Services have now been resumed.
A Mig-29K aircraft with an under-trainee pilot went off the runway while taking odd at the Goa Airort today, Indian Navy said.
On July 1, Amit Shah allegedly held a meeting at the Goa airport complex in the presence of CM Manohar Parrikar.
BJP was not granted permission to hold a rally at Goa's Dabolim Airport premises on Saturday in honour of the party's National President Amit Shah, airport director B.C. Negi said today.
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