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Indian plane makes emergency landing as engine shuts mid air
Air India plane's engine shuts down mid-air; makes emergency landing at Mumbai airport.
Mumbai: An Air India plane had to make an emergency landing at the Mumbai airport on Friday (today) after its engine shut down mid-air.
According to details, an A320neo plane of Tata Group-run airline returned just 27 minutes after taking off as one of its engines shut down mid-air due to a technical issue.
The pilots of the plane received a warning about high exhaust gas temperatures on one of the engines just minutes after the aircraft's departure from the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport at 9:43 am.
With that engine being shut down, the pilot landed back at the Mumbai airport at 10:10 am.
The passengers were flown to the destination Bengaluru after a change of aircraft, said an official.
When asked about the incident, Air India spokesperson said: "Air India accords top priority to safety and our crew are well adept at handling these situations. Our Engineering and Maintenance teams had immediately started looking into the issue".
In the meantime, Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation is conducting an investigation into this incident.
Reportedly, the A320neo planes of Air India have CFM's Leap engines on them.