A Ranchi-bound IndiGo flight with 175 passengers onboard made an emergency touchdown on the metropolis’s Birsa Munda Airport after a chook hit on Monday. The incident occurred at 1.14 pm after a vulture hit the plane at round 3,000 to 4,000 ft.
In keeping with officers, all passengers and crew members are secure, whereas the Airbus 320 suffered injury.
R R Maurya, the director of Birsa Munda Airport, confirmed that each one the passengers are secure, however the “plane suffered a dent after being hit by a vulture. Engineers are assessing the injury,” he stated.
“An IndiGo flight suffered a chook hit close to Ranchi. It was roughly 10 to 12 nautical miles away from right here at an altitude of three,000 to 4,000 ft when the incident occurred,” Maurya stated.
The flight had taken off from Patna, Bihar. After was initially scheduled to depart for Kolkata after stopping at Ranchi.
The same incident occurred in December 2024 when a Guwahati-bound IndiGo flight returned to Bhubaneswar after it reportedly struck a chook shortly after taking off.
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