Air India flight makes emergency landing in Nagpur

Nagpur, May 24: An Air India Mumbai-Nagpur flight, with 153 passengers and crew on board, made an emergency landing at the city airport here due to a technical fault, an airline official said.

Air India flight number 627 made an emergency landing at 0815 hours here after suffering a hydraulic failure, the official told PTI. All passengers travelling in the A-319 aircraft are safe, the official said.

The aircraft could not take-off for its journey back to Mumbai following which some of the passengers were accommodated in other flights, airport officials said.

Arrangements have been made for the remaining passengers at local hotels and they would be flown later in the day, they said.

PTI