Chennai, March 30: A Chennai-bound flight from Jaipur, before the scheduled landing, experienced a tyre burst on Sunday morning and authorities facilitated an emergency landing for the aircraft, airport officials said. All the passengers and the crew are safe and they deplaned safely upon landing, they said.

Before landing, the pilot detected the tyre-burst and alerted authorities, and they acted as per norms for landing under such circumstances. Bomb Threats to Flights: Nagpur-Kolkata Flight Makes Emergency Landing at Chattisgarh’s Raipur Airport.

"Upon visual inspection of the aircraft, wheel no 2 was found damaged with trye pieces coming out from the tyre-left interior..." according to officials.

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