Heavy smoke from engine during takeoff, flight cancelled
Mangaluru: All passengers aboard a flight were asked to disembark from the aircraft when smoke started to billow out of the aircraft's engine, just before takeoff, at the Mangaluru international airport on Wednesday morning.
The SpiceJet flight with 31 passengers was about to fly to Hyderabad from Mangaluru International Airport. A major technical snag was detected in the aircraft's engine while the Airbus was moving towards the runway. Fire tenders and emergency staff of the airport rushed and succeeded in disembarking all the passengers safely.
The flight, which could accommodate over 70 passengers, had only 31 passengers. However, all the passengers were later sent to Hyderabad on another plane.
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50 passengers from Karnataka stranded in conflict region arrived in New Delhi: CM office
Bengaluru (PTI): Fifty passengers from the state who were stranded in the Gulf region amid the ongoing West Asia conflict arrived in New Delhi early Friday morning after departing from Fujairah in the UAE, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's office said.
The protocol team (Karnataka govt) were at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi with breakfast, it said.
They were transported on a KSRP (Karnataka State Reserve Police) bus and two cars to domestic terminals for their onward travel to Bengaluru, Mangaluru and Hubballi, the CM office said in a statement.
Many were disgruntled and complained to the team that MEA did nothing, and it was only a local organisation that helped them with their tickets, etc., the statement claimed.
"Incidentally, we are the only state so far that is providing this assistance at the Delhi airport," it added.
