This Article is From Jun 29, 2010

AI plane makes emergency landing at Kochi airport

Kochi: An Air India plane, with 49 on-board, landed under emergency conditions at the airport here
On Tuesday soon after takeoff after the pilot noticed some technical problem in one of the engines.

The Kochi-Bangalore-Chennai A-320 IC 509 flight with 42 passengers and seven crew had taken off for Bangalore at 0700 hours from Nedumbassery airport, but returned within 30 minutes after the problem was noticed, airport sources said.

Fire services personnel and ambulances were called at the airport to meet any eventuality, the sources said.

Technicians from Chennai are trying to rectify the fault.

Twelve passengers were put on a Kingfisher flight to Bangalore and the rest would be accommodated in the Jetlite flight to Hyderabad and Chennai, airline sources said.
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