Snag-hit Jet flight makes emergency landing; passengers safe

MUMBAI: A Jet Airways-operated Delhi-Khajuraho flight Monday faced a technical glitch Monday causing its landing gear to collapse.

The plane tilted to the left side and its engines scraped along the runway, showed pictures posted on Twitter by eyewitnesses.

The Boeing 737-800 aircraft was carrying 59 passengers and 8 crew members.

Jet said in a statement that safety chutes were deployed immediately after the landing gear malfunctioned. It added that all passengers and crew are safe.

Jet also said it is making arrangements for transfer of outbound passengers to Delhi and Varanasi and added it has informed the DGCA of the incident.

Varanasi and Khajuraho, both places of high tourist interest, host a large number of foreign visitors everyday.

In August 2014, passengers on a Jet Airways Mumbai-Brussels flight got a major scare when the flight abruptly dropped 5,000 feet over the Turkish airspace.

Earlier this month, the DGCA found a set of Jet's pilots who were flying without clearing the pilot proficiency check. Jet refuted the findings.

The regulator had identified over 131 such pilots in September and found 12 more in March.