According to Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) spokesperson Saifur Rahman, a flight from New Delhi to Dubai made an emergency landing at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport on Tuesday.
The official confirmed that the Boeing 737 aircraft had reported an oil leak and repairs were underway. Around 100 passengers have been safely moved to the transit lounge.
SpiceJet confirmed the development on its Twitter handle, but said that no emergency was declared as the landing was normal.
don.com CAA spokesperson reached out to Rahman to comment on SpiceJet’s tweet about the landing being normal. He said if the plane lands in Karachi – which is not its destination – it will be called an emergency landing. He said the pilot contacted the control tower here and requested for landing.
according to a report good By NDTV, SpiceJet flight B737 had taken off from Delhi, but was diverted midway to Karachi due to “indicator light failure”.
“The plane landed safely [sic] Karachi and passengers were evacuated safely. No emergency was declared and the plane made a normal landing. There were no earlier reports of any malfunction with the aircraft,” the report quoted the airline as saying in a statement.
It assured that an alternate flight has been sent to Karachi which will take the passengers to Dubai.
Meanwhile, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation was quoted as saying that the pilots noticed an unusual decrease in the amount of fuel and feared a leak.
However, no evidence of fuel leakage was found after the plane landed.
Separately, a CAA spokesperson said, “All flight operations are normal at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi”.