An IndiGo flight had to make an emergency landing here due to a technical snag in the engine minutes after it took off from the Kolkata airport for Bengaluru on Friday night. A senior official gave this information. He said, IndiGo flight 6E0573 took off from Kolkata's Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) airport at 10.36 pm for Bengaluru but had to return in an emergency manner at 10.53 pm due to a technical snag in the left engine. 

IndiGo flight makes emergency landing

An Airports Authority of India spokesperson said on Saturday that there was no incident of fire or spark during this time. He said that the emergency declared at 10:39 pm was withdrawn at 11:08 pm. The spokesperson said that both the runways of NSCBI airport have been handed over to the Air Traffic Control (ATC) so that they can be made available for the safe landing of the aircraft. He said, "It has been found that after taking off, the left engine of the aircraft failed, due to which it had to return to Kolkata." 

Such incidents have happened before

Let us tell you that earlier an Air India plane flying from Mumbai with 135 passengers and crew had to land at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport. Actually, an emergency landing had to be done after receiving a bomb threat at the airport. Earlier, the plane had left Mumbai in the morning and while going to its destination, it received information about a bomb. The bomb threat was written on tissue paper in the toilet of the plane. After this, after receiving information about the matter, the traffic control unit had requested an emergency landing.