New Delhi: Three international flights and a domestic one made emergency landings at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Wednesday evening due to fuel shortage and fire alert.
A Kalitta Air flight K4 244 (Leipzig to New Delhi) had to make a landing at IGI after reporting a fire emergency on board.
"K4 244 conveyed a fire emergency to ATC, after which it had to make a landing at 4.45pm," an airport official said. Fire services and medical attendants were kept on standby to deal with any emergency. However, no casualty or injury was reported.
The other three flights-Air Arabia flight G9 465 (Sharjah to New Delhi), Kalitta Air flight K4 247 (Leipzig to New Delhi) and Air Asia flight I5 3426 (Pune to Jaipur)-had to land after reporting "less holding fuel".
"Whenever there is disturbance in weather, aircraft consume more fuel than usual. In such cases, the buffer fuel is also used up and a crisis is conveyed to ATC as 'less holding fuel' and permission for immediate landing is sought," said an airport official.The Air Asia flight that was to land in Jaipur was diverted to Delhi due to bad weather. However the weather conditions in Delhi too were harsh and the aircraft reported fuel crisis, the official said.
- Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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