Air India Delhi-Jaipur flight forced to land after fire incident

The aircraft caught fire at the time of emergency landing. All the passengers are safe and have been evacuated.

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  • All passengers have been de-boarded safely
  • Delhi airport officials stated that "full emergency" was declared for the Alliance Air flight
  • The sources said the plane caught fire at the time of landing in Delhi

A Jaipur-bound Alliance airplane with 59 people on board made an emergency landing at the Delhi airport on Monday after it was forced to turn back due to nose landing gear problem and caught fire.

The aircraft took off and landed back at the Delhi airport just a few minutes later. The aircraft caught fire at the time of emergency landing.

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The Alliance Air flight -- 9X 643 -- made an emergency landing at the Delhi airport due to a problem in the nose landing gear and some material failure, a spokesman said.


All the passengers are safe and have been evacuated. According to the reports, the aircraft had issues in its landing gear.

Air India, in a statement, said, "Due to the problem in nose landing gear and some material failure Delhi-Jaipur alliance air flight (9X 643) has been declared emergency landing at Delhi airport. All 59 passengers are safe."

CISF said, "At about 2021 hr AOCC informed that the full Emergency was declared for the flight Alliance Air -9643 (Delhi to Jaipur) which was departed from Delhi at 2013 hr, returned due to landing gear problem, ETA- 2033 hr and at about 2034 hr, AOCC informed that the flight was safely landed at 2025 hr with Passenger on Board= 63."