Air Arabia plane grounded in Chennai after passenger opens emergency exit, sparks security scareTension gripped Chennai International Airport when a passenger opened an emergency exit door on an Air Arabia flight from Sharjah. The airc...
03 May, 2026, 11.01 AM IST
IndiGo flight from Madurai to Chennai witnesses crack in windshield ahead of landingAn IndiGo flight from Madurai to Chennai experienced a windshield crack just before landing. The pilot alerted air traffic control, and the...
11 Oct, 2025, 11.08 AM IST
Narrow escape for 180 passengers: Air India flight forced to abort landing just 200 feet above Chennai runwayAn Air India flight from Singapore aborted its landing at Chennai airport just 200 feet above ground due to an unstabilized approach caused...
31 May, 2025, 01.39 PM IST
Only 6 passengers in an IndiGo flight. What happened next will surprise youIndiGo passengers traveling from Bengaluru to Chennai on a Sunday night flight claimed they were misled by airline staff, who asked them to...
21 Nov, 2023, 10.27 AM IST
Andhra man dies moments after exiting plane at Chennai airportA 47-year-old man, identified as Solomon Martin Luther, collapsed and died at the domestic terminal of Chennai airport. Luther, an electric...
28 Aug, 2023, 12.32 PM IST
Three emergency landings of international airlines in India in last 48 hoursThe Air Arabia aircraft while operating flight G9-426 from Sharjah to Cochin was involved in a Hydraulic failure. The aircraft landed safel...
17 Jul, 2022, 03.07 PM IST
Trujet plane makes emergency landing at Chennai airport; passengers safeThe 52 passengers, including five crew members and an infant, were safely evacuated from the runway itself, a PIB release said.
17 Nov, 2020, 06.46 PM IST
Chennai airport runway shut after SpiceJet flight suffers tyre burst, passengers safeA Chennai-Delhi flight of the low fare carrier suffered a tyre burst on Thursday during take off and the Boeing 737 had to return to Chenna...
09 Feb, 2018, 04.24 PM IST
Airports Authority of India asked to carry out inspection of Chennai AirportThe government-run airport operator has also been asked to fix the maintenance issues at the earliest, Raju said in a tweet today.
11 May, 2016, 06.55 PM IST
Inspection to be carried in Chennai airport after several complaints receivedafter receiving more than three incidents of a portion of false ceiling crashing down and 40 incidents infrastructural accidents, AAI will ...
11 May, 2016, 05.15 PM IST
Delhi, Chennai & Mumbai airspace see 26 collision misses in 1 yearIncidents are considered near miss when two aircraft have such proximity that could lead to compromise in their safety on air.
09 May, 2016, 09.58 AM IST
No decision on privatisation of Chennai Airport: AAI officialNo decision has been taken with regard to privatisation of Chennai Airport, a top AAI official said today.
12 Aug, 2015, 11.25 PM IST
False ceiling falls at old terminal at Chennai airportIn the fourth such incident in the airport here since last month, a portion of false ceiling collapsed at the old Anna International termin...
23 Apr, 2014, 06.00 PM IST
AAI probing glass panel break at Chennai AirportFor the past several months, incidents of glass panels getting broken and false ceilings collapsing have been occurring at the Chennai Airp...
04 Nov, 2013, 04.19 PM IST
- False ceiling comes crashing down at Chennai airport
A portion of false ceiling at the domestic departure terminal of Chennai airport caved in early today.
11 Aug, 2013, 04.07 PM IST
Portion of false ceiling falls down in Chennai airportThree contract workers suffered bruises when a portion of a false ceiling at the recently inaugurated domestic terminal at the airport here.
13 May, 2013, 10.51 AM IST
- Three security lapses at Delhi airports this year
Mumbai saw no security related lapses last year while two were reported in 2010 and one in 2009. In Kolkata, three cases were reported last...
05 Dec, 2012, 06.11 PM IST