Weather update: Airlines have requested passengers to keep a check on the status of flights on airline websites before leaving for the airport. Passengers who arrived at the airport but were not aware of the delays were seen sitting on the floors and waiting for an update from the airline.
This is not the first time that the airline has been pulled up by passengers. Earlier, an IndiGo flight from Lucknow to Abu Dhabi suffered a hydraulic system issue and made an emergency landing at Delhi airport, said sources.
The incident occurred on board IndiGo flight 6E 68 operating from Jeddah to Hyderabad. The flight departed from Karachi after completing formalities and landed in Hyderabad.
The incident took place when the plane was flying 15 miles from the runway of Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport, an official of Airports Authority of India said.
India made history on August 23 with the successful soft-landing of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the Moon's south pole - the only country to reach there so far.
Maharashtra: A case has been registered against a passenger who was found smoking in the toilet of an IndiGo flight.
IndiGo Airlines news: Regulator DGCA slaps Rs 30 lakh fine for systemic deficiencies regarding documentation related to training, engineering procedures.
DGCA suspended licence of IndiGo captain for 3 months for tail strike landing in Ahmedabad.
The 40-year-old passenger was handed over to security authorities after the flight landed at the Delhi airport.
IndiGo flight enters Pakistan airspace: An Indigo flight entered Pakistan's airspace on Sunday. Later it was diverted to Amritsar.
IndiGo aircraft: According to a Directorate General Civil Aviation (DGCA) official, it was the second such incident in the last five days.
Flight 6e-645 took off from Amritsar around 20:00 hrs and landed safely at Ahmedabad at around 21:40 hrs after briefly straying into Pakistani airspace.
IndiGo Flight emergency landing: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) confirmed that IndiGo Flight 6E897, which had departed Bengaluru for Varanasi but diverted to Hyderabad airport, made an emergency landing at 6:15 am.
The picture showed a crew member allegedly cleaning the spot where the passenger vomited with spray and tissue papers.
This is the seventh incident this year when a case has been filed for unruly behaviour by flyers.
IndiGo flight news: The airline said that the passenger was declared dead on arrival by the airport medical team.
After landing at Bhopal, the airport's team, without wasting a second, quickly offboarded the passenger and shifted him safely to the nearest hospital, Bhopal Airport said in a statement.
Pawan Khera arrest news: This development came after the Congress claimed its leader Pawan Khera was deplaned from the flight to Raipur, where he was going to attend the party's plenary session. Several party leaders got off the plane after Khera was deboarded and staged a dharna on the tarmac.
The deceased, identified as 60-year-old Atul Gupta, was rushed to a hospital in Indore where the doctors declared him dead.
IndiGo operates more than 1,600 daily flights and currently flies to 100 destinations, including 26 international ones.
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