186 passengers of Indian Airlines flight from Sharjah to Hyderabad Deccan, which made an emergency landing in Karachi, after a 14-hour stay at Jinnah International Airport, took an alternative flight to the Indian city of Ahmedabad instead of the destination.
According to aviation sources, the flight 6E-1406 of Indian Airline Indigo from Sharjah to Hyderabad Deccan at 1.30 am on Saturday and Sunday night was heading towards the sea destination in the airspace of Pakistan when the Airbus A320 plane suffered a technical problem.
According to aviation sources, the pilot contacted the air traffic control and reported a malfunction in the engine number two of the aircraft.
According to the sources, the plane suddenly fell to 32 thousand feet from the height of 37 thousand feet.
Air traffic control allowed the pilot to land the plane at Karachi Airport on humanitarian grounds. The flight landed at Jinnah International Airport at 2:15 PM Pakistan time.
Pakistani engineers declared the plane unfit for immediate flight after inspection. The airport ground staff shifted the 186 passengers on board the plane to the transit lounge with the permission of the pilot. Where the passengers of Indian Airlines were provided with food and necessities.
Indigo Air’s alternative flight 6E-9001 from Ahmedabad reached Karachi at 12:29 PM on Sunday afternoon to transport the passengers to their destination. 186 passengers who stayed at Karachi airport for 14 hours left for Ahmedabad instead of their destination Hyderabad Deccan in the same plane at 4:30 pm on Sunday evening, while the relief flight left Karachi at 4:08 minutes earlier. Left for Ahmedabad.
This is the second Indian passenger flight that had to make an emergency landing in Karachi during the current two weeks. On July 5, the SG11 flight of the Indian private airline Spicejet from Delhi to Dubai also made an emergency landing at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport in a similar situation.
