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Mumbai-bound Vistara flight returns to Varanasi after bird hit
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IANS | 06 Aug, 2022
A Mumbai-bound Vistara flight returned to Varanasi after it suffered a bird hit, Aviation regulator DGCA said.
Vistara
A320 aircraft VT-TNC operating flight UK622 (Varanasi-Mumbai) was
involved in an air turn back to Varanasi due to a bird hit. The aircraft
has landed safely in Varanasi with and the radome is damaged. It has
been declared aircraft on ground (AOG), the Directorate General of Civil
Aviation (DGCA)said.
In a statement, a spokesperson of the
private carrier said: "Vistara flight UK 622 operating from Varanasi to
Mumbai on August 5, 2022 turned back to Varanasi due to a bird strike
during departure. Due to a maintenance inspection of the aircraft being
required, another aircraft has been sent from Delhi to Varanasi to fly
the passengers to Mumbai. It has been our constant endeavour to minimise
inconvenience to our customers in such unavoidable situations whilst
keeping safety as our topmost priority."
This is the second such
incident of bird hit. A Go First flight operating from Ahmedabad to
Chandigarh was diverted to Ahmedabad after a bird hit on Wednesday.
Multiple
incidents of technical snags and diversion of flights have been
reported in the last few weeks. As per government data, a total of 478
technical snags related occurrences were reported in the planes in the
last one year between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022.
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