Mumbai-Guwahati bound SpiceJet plane, with 180 passengers and crew, made an emergency landing at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata on Wednesday morning after the pilot suspected the leakage of the fuel.
SpiceJet emergency landing in Kolkata
All passengers have been reported safe and the flight was undergoing maintenance till the last received reports. According to a top airport official, such incidents of emergency landing after suspected fuel leakage are rare.
Kaushik Bhattacharya, the director of NSCBI airport said, “At around 8:45 am on Wednesday, the flight’s pilot informed the ATC in Kolkata of suspected fuel leakage and that the flight needs to make an emergency landing. The flight landed around 8:58 am.”
He later informed, “We have informed the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. All passengers have been deboarded. The flight is undergoing the necessary maintenance. It is yet to take off.”
The flight’s captain had earlier informed air traffic control in Kolkata about fuel leakage from the aircraft. However, later inspection of the plane revealed that the leakage was in the water tank.
Earlier on January 13, SpiceJet plane made an emergency landing at Chennai International airport because of a technical glitch. The flight was supposed to land there later but was given priority when a problem was found in one of its flaps. The plane was flying from Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi.
