Emergency landing at Raja Bhoj Airport, passengers are safe

BHOPAL: On Thursday due to some technical reasons a Mumbai-bound Air India flight with 70 passengers on board made an emergency landing at the Raja Bhoj airport here within 15 minutes of its take-off for Indore.

According to sources the hydraulic system of plane AI-634 developed some technical snag last because of which it had to be brought back to the airport here, after its departure at 2030 hours.

Airport sources confirmed, the flight was officially cancelled at 2130 hours after engineers failed to rectify the snag.

The flight scheduled from New Delhi at 1915 hours, halts at Bhopal and Indore, on its way to Mumbai.

After the incident all the passengers were deplaned safely and were taken to Indore and Mumbai by another flight this morning.