Budget carrier IndiGo’s Guwahati-Chennai flight had to make an emergency landing in Bengaluru after the pilots declared ‘mayday’, said sources. The incident comes just a week after Air India Dreamliner flight to London crashed shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad.
The incident took place on Thursday and the pilots have been derostered.
The Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner issued a mayday call shortly before it crashed around lunchtime on June 12, bursting into a fireball as it hit residential buildings. The IndiGo plane, which was critically low on fuel, made a safe landing in Bengaluru.