Ninety passengers of AI 645 Air India flight had a close shave after a bird hit one of its engines forcing emergency landing within a few minutes of its take-off at Raja Bhoj Airport in the morning on Wednesday.
The passengers escaped unhurt and the plane later took off at around 3 pm to Mumbai.
A major accident was averted in the morning at Raja Bhoj Airport as after around five minutes after the flight took off at around 8 am from the airport, a bird hit the right engine damaging its fans.
Sensing the damage and to avert any untoward incident the pilot informed the Air Traffic Control (ATC) and reported the incident after which the flight made an emergency landing.
During the repair work the passengers of the flight were taken care of by the Air India claimed officials of Air India.
later arrangement for the stranded passengers was made and a flight for the passengers from Delhi arrived and took passengers to Mumbai. The flight arrived as 2.20 pm and took off at around 3 pm from Raja Bhoj Airport. The flight arrives at 7.30 am from Mumbai and later departs at around 8 am for Mumbai.
In the wake of the incident AI 843 Delhi –Mumbai flight was diverted to Bhopal to help the passengers reached their destination.