Air India said a full emergency was declared on the flight, following which it made a safe emergency landing.
After flames were detected in one of its engines, a Calicut-bound Air India Express B737-800 aircraft from Abu Dhabi had to make an emergency landing back at Abu Dhabi airport, the country’s aviation regulatory body said Friday.
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in a statement said the flight which had a total of 184 passengers on board landed safely and none of the passengers was hurt during the incident.
Air India Express told ANI news agency that soon after taking off, the pilot detected a flame when the plane was at about 1,000 feet high. The airline said that the fire was detected in one of the engines and hence the people in charge made the decision to land the flight back to Abu Dhabi airport.
“Today an Air India Express B737-800 aircraft VT-AYC operating flight IX348 (Abu Dhabi-Calicut) was involved in Airturnback due to the No. 1 engine flameout at 1,000 ft during the climb,” DGCA said in a statement.