Air India plane with 169 on board makes emergency landing

BHUBANESWAR: A Delhi-Bhubaneswar Air India flight (AI 873) made an emergency landing at Lucknow airport with 169 passengers onboard at about 12.30 pm on Tuesday. All the passengers were safe after the landing. Airport sources here said that there was minor crack in the windshield forcing the pilot to land at Lucknow airport. The flight left Delhi at 11.30 am and was to land in Bhubaneswar at 1.15 pm. According to airport officials the flight AI 873 was flying thousands of feet above Khajuraho when the pilot detected a crack on the rear side of the nose. It was 11.57 am when the pilot finally decided to contact the air traffic control at the Amausi airport. Airport director SC Hota said that the flight eventually made a safe landing at around 12.35 pm. "All passengers are safe. The aircraft is being attended by the engineers. If the problem is found to be major the passengers would be sent through an alternate flight. Otherwise the same flight will take off," he said.   TOI