Jet Airways Flight 9W 202 made an emergency landing at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan, on November 7th.
The plane flying from New Delhi, India to Doha, Qatar, was diverted due to a medical emergency.
Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) confirmed that the plane declared a medical emergency after a passenger’s medical condition became critical. However, the passenger passed away on landing in Karachi.
Air India flight-9604 had to return and make an emergency landing at Bamrauli Airport in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, on October 21st.
The plane took off for New Delhi, India, but had to return shortly afterwards due to a technical snag.
The plane landed safely. There were 48 passengers and 5 crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained safe.
Singapore Airlines flight SQ-406 had to make an emergency landing in Singapore, on September 29th.
The Airbus A380-800 plane took off for New Delhi, India, but had to turn back after the passenger oxygen masks deployed.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained safe.
The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.
Nepal Airlines Corporation flight RA-206 made an emergency landing in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 26th.
The plane was flying from New Delhi, India, when the crew reported smoke in cockpit and declared an emergency.
The plane landed uneventfully. All 154 passengers and 9 crew members aboard remained safe.
Nepal Airlines flight RA-218 had to return and make an emergency landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, on September 11th.
The plane took off for Kathmandu, Nepal, but had to return shortly afterwards due to a wing flap malfunction.
The plane landed safely. All 160 people aboard remained unharmed.
Iraqi Airways flight IA-443 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Kuwait City, Kuwait, on July 31st.
The plane heading from Basra, Iraq, to New Delhi, India, was diverted due to an engine malfunction.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
Air India flight 433A had to return and make an emergency landing at Gaya International Airport in Bihar, India, on July 15th.
The plane took off for New Delhi, India, but had to return shortly afterwards after it developed a technical snag.
The plane landed uneventfully. There were 127 passengers aboard at the time, including senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor; all of them remained safe.
GoAir flight G8-102 made an emergency landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, India, on July 9th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane, flying from Kolkata, declared an emergency after lightning struck it causing the windshield to crack.
The plane landed uneventfully. All 180 passengers remained safe.
Air India flight AI-35 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, on May 10th.
The Airbus A320-200, heading from New Delhi to Kochi in Kerala, India, was diverted due to a cargo smoke indication.
The plane landed uneventfully. There were 168 passengers and 7 crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained safe.
The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.
A Vistara Airlines plane was hit by a bird while descending toward Bhubaneswar in Odisha, India, on May 5th.
Authorities said the bird struck the nose of the plane that was performing flight UK-709 from New Delhi to Bhubaneswar.
The plane continued for a safe landing. All 50 passengers and 7 crew members remained unharmed.
Jet Airways flight 2828 made an emergency landing at Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in Lucknow, India, on April 27th.
Authorities said the plane, flying from Dehradun, Uttarakhand, had reached its scheduled destination in New Delhi on time but the ATC advised the pilots to divert to Lucknow due to poor weather conditions. Shortly before reaching the airport in Lucknow, the pilots received low fuel indication and declared an emergency.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unhurt.
Two Kathmandu-bound flights were grounded just before takeoff from Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, on January 27.
Authorities said the flights were grounded after the Jet Airways security office received a call saying there was a “bomb threat” to Jet Airways flight 9W 260 and Air India flight AI-215.
There were 122 passengers and 7 crew members aboard Jet Airways flight while the Air India plane was carrying 121 passengers at the time.
Air India flight AI 137 had to return and make an emergency landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport, in New Delhi, India, on January 26.
The plane took off for Milan, Italy, but had to return shortly afterwards after smoke was detected in the cabin.
The Boeing Dreamliner plane landed safely. All 167 passengers aboard remained unharmed.
A Border Security Force (BSF) plane crashed near Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Dehli, India, on December 22.
The Beech SuperKing B200 aircraft, carrying 10 BSF personnel, went down just after taking off from the Delhi airport. Authorities believe the plane’s left engine stopped working, causing it to crash into the wall of airport’s sewage treatment plant and ending up in the water.
All ten personnel aboard the plane were killed in the crash.
The accident is being investigated.
Air India flight AI 973 had to return and make an emergency landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, on October 4.
The Airbus A319 took off for Muscat but had to return shortly afterwards after the pilot reported a hydraulic leak.
The plane landed safely. There were 80 passengers aboard at the time; all of them remained unhurt.
The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.
Air India domestic flight AI-405 made an emergency landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, on September 7.
The Airbus A320-200, en-route to Delhi, from Varanasi, had to be landed in emergency due to hydraulic failure, leading to heavy smoke.
The plane landed safely.
Five among the 146 passengers and 6 crew members sustained minor injuries as they were evacuated through slides.
Air India flight AI-410 had to make an emergency landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, India, at around 11 A.M. on July 31.
The pilot of Airbus A-319 requested emergency landing after detecting a technical snag. The plane was flying from Patna to New Delhi at the time.
The plane landed uneventfully and everyone aboard remained safe.
Jet Airways flight 9W-063 landed at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India under emergency conditions on May 7.
The plane was en-route from Bangkok to Delhi when the pilot fell sick and the co-pilot had to take over the controls. According to an airline spokesperson, “The Captain was being looked after by a Doctor that was traveling as a passenger on board the flight. The first officer was assisted by another Jet Airways Captain that was positioning as a passenger from Bangkok to Delhi.”
The plane, carrying around 200 people, landed safely.
The incident is being investigated.
Twenty-Eight passengers were injured after a landing gear problem in IndiGo flight 6E-176 from Mumbai caused thick smoke emission on landing in New Delhi, India, and prompted an emergency evacuation on August 20.
Air Traffic Control (ATC) observed “dense smoke” coming out of the left-side lower portion of the Airbus A-320 after it landed at IGI Airport at about 3:30 p.m.then alerted the pilots and emergency services at the airport. All 154 people aboard the plane were evacuated using emergency slide-chutes.
Twenty-eight of 148 passengers suffered minor injuries during the slide evacuation, while the 6 crew members escaped unhurt.
Aviation regulator DGCA and the airline have initiated investigations. Preliminary investigations revealed that a heavy friction on the left brake assembly of the landing gear caused the smoke.
Air India flight AI021 had to land in emergency in New Delhi, after rats were found running around the cabin, on the evening of August 4.
The Airbus A-321 was on its way from Calcutta to New Delhi when the crew members discovered ‘scores’ of rats in the cabin. The plane safely landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi after which, the passengers were evacuated and the aircraft was grounded for pest control treatment and fumigation.
According to a senior commander, “Rats on board an aircraft can lead to a catastrophe if they start chewing up electric wires of a fly by wire plane…If that happens, pilots will have no control on any system on board leading to a disaster.”
However, an Air India officer was reported saying that the rat infestation is ‘common’ in planes worldwide as the rodents could ‘get in anywhere.’ “They follow the catering vans into the plane when they smell the food,” he said.
