Air India flight with 189 passengers makes emergency landing in Mumbai

Air India flight carrying 189 passengers from Lucknow to Dubai was diverted to Mumbai to make an emergency landing as a part of the nose wheel was found on the Lucknow airport runaway soon after the

flight took off. The incident happened on Saturday evening.

The flight IX 193, operated with a Boeing 737 aircraft, had 189 passengers on board. “After the aircraft took off from Lucknow, a part of the nose wheel was found on the runway,” said a source. The commander of the flight was alerted, who in turn decided to divert the aircraft to Mumbai.

An airport official said, “A full emergency was declared at 3.55pm for the Air India Express flight. It landed safely on runway 27 at 6.11pm.” But that was not before the airline’s engineers and air traffic controllers were asked to inspect the damage. “The Boeing 737 did a low fly past at the Mumbai airport. Airline engineers and air traffic controllers were ready with binoculars to ascertain the damage,” said an airline official.

According to an Air India Express spokesperson, all the 189 passengers were safe and they were put on another flight to Dubai. They were en route to Dubai in less than two hours after the emergency landing, said the spokesperson.