DGCA launches probe into IndiGo flight incident

Aviation regulator DGCA has ordered a probe into the incident involving an IndiGo flight which made an emergency landing at the Kolkata airport yesterday due to an engine glitch, even as the airline maintained its pilot did not seek emergency landing.
The flight, carrying 180 passengers including two infants onboard, was on its way to Dibrugarh from New Delhi when it was diverted to Kolkata's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.
"Glitch in one of the aircraft engines forced the IndiGo Delhi-Dibrugarh flight to made emergency landing at Kolkata airport. The DGCA has launched its investigation into the incident," sources said today.

An IndiGo spokesperson, however, said that the aircraft had confronted a technical issue but it was not a serious one which would warrant an emergency landing.
"Our pilot only sought diversion of the flight and not emergency landing as the situation did not require it at all," IndiGo Director for Corporate Communication Ajay Jasra said today.
Yesterday, IndiGo had said that the commander operating Delhi-Dibrugarh flight 6E-3645, decided to divert aircraft to Kolkata "due a technical snag as a precautionary measure."
"Despite that cockpit crew did not declare any emergency. ATC (Kolkata) declared full emergency on its own. The aircraft landed safely," the statement had said.