World News | 138 SpiceJet stranded passengers depart Karachi for Dubai on alternate plane

KARACHI, July 5 (PTI) On Tuesday night, another flight of Indian budget airline Spice Jet flew from Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport to Dubai, ending an almost 11-hour wait for 138 passengers who took off from New Delhi After staying in Dubai. morning.

SpiceJet’s Delhi-Dubai flight was diverted to Karachi as fuel indicators began to fail. The Boeing 737 Max made an emergency landing at Karachi airport at around 9.15am after Pakistani civil aviation authorities allowed the Indian plane to land at Jinnah International Airport for humanitarian reasons.

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An official at the Civil Aviation Authority said the Indian airline had dispatched a spare plane SG 9911 from Mumbai to take passengers to Dubai, which took off at around 9.20pm.

The official said Pakistan International Airlines engineers worked with the Spice Airline crew to locate and correct the plane’s technical fault. All passengers were transferred to the Transit Lounge and all hospitality including food and refreshments were provided.

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“Obviously there was a problem with the aircraft’s lights that could not be repaired immediately and without the engineer’s permission, so another aircraft was dispatched from Mumbai,” he said.

An Indigo Indian Airlines flight also had to make an emergency landing at Karachi airport in March last year after a passenger complained of chest pains and fell ill.

The Sharjah-Lucknow flight then departed for its destination, but doctors on board were unable to save the passenger who died of cardiac arrest.

Hours after SpiceJet’s Delhi-Dubai flight went down in the air, another of the budget airline’s planes showed cracks in the windshield at 23,000 feet, forcing the airline to land in Mumbai a priority A double whammy.

In the past 17 days, two incidents in one day brought the total number of incidents of technical failures on SpiceJet aircraft to seven.

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