Air India said a full emergency was declared on the flight, following which it made a ‘safe’ emergency landing and all passengers were evacuated
An Air India flight made an emergency landing at Abu Dhabi airport due to engine failure while taking off. The incident happened while the Calicut-bound Air India Express B737-800 aircraft was at a height of 1000 feet during its climb after takeoff from the Abu Dhabi airport.
As per an initial report, the fire was noticed in one of the engines, a senior official at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said.
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A “full emergency” was declared on the flight after the fire was reported, following which the aircraft returned to Abu Dhabi airport and made a “safe” emergency landing and all passengers were evacuated.
The Boeing 737-800 aircraft had 184 passengers onboard and all are safe, an airline spokesperson said.
A source told the news agency PTI that there was an engine failure on the plane.
“Today an Air India Express B737-800 aircraft VT-AYC operating flight IX 348 (Abu Dhabi-Calicut ) was involved in Airturnback due to the No.1 engine flameout at 1000ft during the climb,” according to the DGCA official.
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The spokesperson said the plane had a technical snag in one of the engines while taking off.
Meanwhile, the government on Thursday said domestic airlines faced a total of 546 technical snags during the operation of planes last year. Out of them, Air India faced 64 snags.
