Air India flight AI 873 on its way to Bhubaneswar made an emergency landing at the Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in lucknow on Tuesday afternoon after a crack was detected in the windshield of the plane midair.
The Airbus 321 had started its flight from New Delhi at 11.30 am and was in the airspace over Khajuraho when the pilot noticed the glitch and contacted the air traffic control at the lucknow airport. After necessary clearance, the flight landed at the lucknow airport at 12.30 pm.
The flight was scheduled to land at the Biju Patnaik Airport in Bhubaneswar at 1.30 pm. Senior officials of the airport here informed that all 169 passengers on board were safe. “They would travel as soon as the maintenance work is over,” the official said.
“Alternative travel arrangements would be made should the maintenance take a long time,” said a senior official of the airport.