Panaji: Kuwait-Goa Air India Flight Suffers Tyre-burst while Landing
Daijiworld Media Network
Panaji, Sep 6: In yet another incident of an aircraft coming close to a major tragedy, an Air India flight 976 from Kuwait to Goa burst two of its tyres while landing at the Dabolim airport here on Tuesday September 6.
The aircraft is yet to be cleared off the runway. All 105 passengers on board are safe, sources said. The flight was on its way to Chennai.
The incident took place at around 8.30 am, airport officials said. Alternate arrangements will be made to ferry the passengers to Chennai, it is learnt.
This is one of several incidents of close shaves reported over the last few days from different airports. Over the past week or so, there have been three emergency landings and two incidents of aircraft veering off the runway.
On Saturday September 3 a Mumbai-bound SpiceJet flight carrying 136 passengers from Bangalore made an emergency landing in Mumbai airport following hydraulic failure.
On August 30, Chennai-Bangalore-Thiruvananthapuram Air India flight had to land in an emergency situation at Thiruvananthapuram for the same reason, and the very next day, a Jeddah-Mumbai flight was in a similar situation at Mumbai airport.
On Friday September 2, a Turkish Airlines flight also veered off Mumbai airport's taxiway, with no casualties reported.
At Kochi airport, a Gulf Air flight skid off the runway on August 30, injuring seven and damaging the flight.
Luckily, despite so many incidents, there have been no casualties.