Bird hit leads to chaos at Mumbai airport

March 31, 2015 22:45

A bird-hit incident led to chaos at the Mumbai Airport today forcing the authorities to divert as many as five flights to nearby airports and three to do a go-around.

A Jet Airways flight from Dubai to Mumbai, with 110 people onboard, suffered a bird hit while landing but no harm was done either to the passengers or the aircraft, airport sources said. The incident occurred at around 4:29 pm when Jet Airways flight 9W-541, being operated with a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, from Dubai was landing, they said.

"All passengers landed safely. An inspection of the aircraft was also carried out by the engineering team, which did not report any damage to the plane," a Jet Airways spokesperson said.

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