Tiruchi-Sharjah flight mid-air scare: Passengers told about glitch only 30 minutes before landing
Passengers at the Tiruchi airport after an Air India Express flight landed safely following a mid-air glitch on October 11, 2024.
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Passengers on board the Air India Express flight were unaware of the technical glitch for nearly two hours after the flight took off from the Tiruchi airport.“It was only 30 minutes before the aircraft made an emergency landing were the passengers informed about the technical glitch”, said A. Shahul Hameed who was on the flight to Sharjah.Passengers were anxious and some of them became tense once the information was conveyed on board nearly two hours after take off, Mr. Hameed told The Hindu over phone after the flight landed safely in Tiruchi. Mr. Hameed, a resident of Tiruchi and working as a building maintenance official at Sharjah, said t...