Spice Jet flight makes emergency landing due to suspected fire

MUMBAI: A Mumbai-Hyderabad Spice Jet flight with 140 passengers on board today landed under emergency conditions at the city airport after a fire alarm in the aircraft.

The aircraft, which took off from Mumbai airport around 0530 hours returned and landed safely at 0605 hours. All the passengers were disembarked by 0630 hours, a Mumbai International Airport Limited ( MIAL) official said here.

"Full emergency was declared at 0558 hours for the Mumbai-Hyderabad flight SG 401 after a fire alarm in the aircraft," the official said.

However, the emergency was withdrawn at 0708 hours after an inspection was carried out and no fire was found.

Following this all operations were declared normal, the official added.