Mumbai: An Emirates flight headed from Mumbai to Dubai returned minutes after taking off to make an emergency landing. There were 200 passengers and crew on board; all are reported safe.
An Emirates flight
The flight, EK507, took off from Mumbai at about 3.35 pm. A full emergency was declared by the Mumbai Air Traffic Control a few minutes before 4 pm and the plane returned.
Early inquiries suggest one of the engines of the plane developed a problem.
The airline later issued a statement saying: “Emirates flight EK507 Mumbai to Dubai returned to Mumbai airport shortly after take-off due to a technical issue. The A330 aircraft landed at Mumbai airport without incident shortly after its initial departure. Emirates is providing refreshments to its passengers and working towards accommodating all 186 passengers on the earliest available flights out of Mumbai. Wherever required passengers are also being accommodated at nearby city hotels. Emirates regrets any inconvenience to its valued customers, but the safety of its passengers and crew is of paramount importance and will not be compromised.”
Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/emergency-landing-for-emirates-flight-at-mumbai-122453&cp
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Well, count all the moving parts on an airplane, if an important part fails then you can have a crash. . . . Here’s a fine scenario! I saw it on a documentary once (it happened before). . . A jumbo jet had a jet attached to the rudder of the aircraft and it was very poorly maintained. So a crack developed in one of the parts of the turbine in it. So the aircraft started up, flew through the air and the stress became too great for the cracked part so it exploded and sent shrapnel through the aircraft’s hull. . . Here’s where it gets really bad. One of the shards cuts open a hydraulic fluid line, so the aircraft quickly ran out of hydraulic fluid. If a plane runs out of hydraulic fluid it can no longer control it’s steering, ascending or descending by any conventional means. So it could very easily fall out of the sky and crash and the crew wouldn’t be able to do a thing about it.