Air passengers continued to face mid-air scare due to technical snags in aircraft. After SpiceJet flights were hit with repeated snags in the last three weeks, passengers of several flights faced the same trauma over the weekend.
A Sharjah-Hyderabad IndiGo flight had to make an emergency landing at the Karachi International Airport in Pakistan as a precaution on Sunday. This was the second such instance in two weeks where an Indian airline was forced to make an emergency landing in Karachi.
"The pilot of the Sharjah-Hyderabad flight observed a technical defect in the aircraft, as a precaution, the aircraft was diverted to Karachi, Pakistan," IndiGo airlines said in a statement. IndiGo airline has stated that another aircraft is being dispatched to Karachi to ferry the stranded passengers to Hyderabad.
Last week, SpiceJet's Delhi-Dubai flight had to be diverted to Karachi after the pilots noticed an unusual fuel reduction in one of the fuel tanks of the plane.
In the second incident, Air India Express (Calicut -Dubai) was diverted to Muscat on Saturday after a burning smell was observed in the cabin mid-air and the pilots observed a defect in one of the engines.
The burning smell was coming from one of the vents in the forward galley and the pilots, therefore, diverted the plane to Muscat and landed safely, the officials said.
The third incident is related to the Air India Express Bahrain-Kochi flight in which an live bird was found in the cockpit on July 15.