A SpiceJet flight (SG-8720) traveling from Bengaluru with 152 passengers onboard landed at Nagpur at around 1:30 am on Saturday after developing technical issues.
Passengers of the Bengaluru-Delhi SpiceJet flight were left stranded for over ten hours on Saturday after their aircraft landed in Nagpur. The Delhi-bound flight was diverted to Nagpur at 12:30 am after officials reportedly spotted a problem with the fuel tank gate of the aircraft. The passengers of the flight were then asked to wait at the Nagpur airport.
“We were told an aircraft is coming from Mumbai with engineers. Then the airline officials said one aircraft is coming from Bangalore. But none came,” Surabhi Saraogi, a passenger told Indian Express.
Passengers also said that they were made to stay inside the aircraft till 5:30 am as SpiceJet does not operate from Nagpur.
“We were kept inside the flight till 5.30 am and later we were allowed to go outside the plane at Nagpur. All the passengers were later served with tea and poha in the morning,” another passenger told Hindustan Times.
Eventually, a flight was brought in from New Delhi to Nagpur to take the stranded passengers from Nagpur to Delhi at 1:30 pm. The original flight was supposed to land in New Delhi at 12:45 am.
“An alternate aircraft was sent to Nagpur. It is clarified that the aircraft made a normal landing, and not an emergency landing in Nagpur,” the airline said in a statement.
Another SpiceJet aircraft was forced to make an unscheduled stop on Saturday. The Mumbai to Chennai flight (SG-611) had to turn back and return to Mumbai airport after it developed technical issues in the morning. The plane took off for Chennai after the issue was fixed. .