New Delhi. Vistara Airlines flight took off from Bhubaneswar, Odisha today. Apart from 165 passengers, there were cabin crew members on board this flight. The flight was to reach Delhi but suddenly the weather turned bad and hailstorm started. The plane fell victim to bad weather just 10 minutes after takeoff. Before the pilot could understand anything. Due to hail, there was a crack in the glass in front of the cockpit. Things inside the plane started going out of control.
The pilot became unable to see anything in front. The pilot immediately informed the air traffic control about the seriousness of the matter, after which the plane was ordered to return to Bhubaneswar. Piral somehow brought the flight back to Bhubaneswar and arrangements for emergency landing were made there. There is no information about any casualty in this incident. Passengers and cabin-crew are completely safe. However, it is definitely being told that the plane has suffered a lot of damage in the incident.
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According to the information received, the Bhubaneswar-Delhi flight took off at its normal time but after the sudden change in the weather, the conditions inside the plane started becoming dire. Hail caused considerable damage to the plane. It is being told that after the crack in the glass, outside air started coming inside the plane rapidly, due to which things got disturbed and a lot of damage was also caused. According to initial information, due to hailstorm in many parts of Odisha this afternoon, there was a crack in the windshield of the plane. Prasanna Pradhan, director of Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA), said, ‘A windshield has been damaged, while there is no harm to the passengers.’
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Tags: DGCA, emergency landing, vistara airlines
FIRST PUBLISHED: May 1, 2024, 18:18 IST