Air India Express engine caught fire, all passengers safe

An engine of Air India Express flight going from Abu Dhabi to Calicut caught fire. After this the flight was landed back at Abu Dhabi Airport. The aircraft has been safely landed with all the passengers on board. This information has been given by Air India Express. At the same time, DGCA has also confirmed the incident.

The DGCA issued a statement saying that Air India Express's B737-800 VT-AYC operating flight IX348 (Abu Dhabi-Calicut) caught fire in engine number one during takeoff. At that time the aircraft was at an altitude of 1000 feet. After this the aircraft was safely landed in Abu Dhabi.

According to the information, there were 184 passengers on board the Air India Express flight coming from Abu Dhabi. The aircraft is said to have caught fire after a technical fault in the engine. As soon as the pilot of the aircraft saw the flames, he made an emergency landing of the aircraft in Abu Dhabi. Air India Express has said that the cause of the accident is being investigated.

Significantly, for some time, the incidents of plane accidents are continuously coming to the fore. Earlier on Sunday, an Air India Express flight coming from Sharjah had to make an emergency landing at Cochin International Airport. It was suspected that the hydraulics of the aircraft had stopped working. A full emergency was declared at the airport at 8.40 pm on Sunday and the flight landed safely at 8.26 pm, a spokesperson of the Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) said.