Emergency landing by Jet flight with 147 passengers

Hyderabad: A Bengaluru-bound Jet Airways flight carrying 147 passengers and eight crew members made an emergency landing at the Shamshabad airport late on Saturday night. All the passengers were stated to be safe. According to sources, flight 9W 7049, which took off from Kolkata, developed a technical snag in its hydraulic system and was diverted to Hyderabad, where it made an emergency landing at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport.

Upon landing, one of its tyres burst. However, all the 147 passengers were de-boarded safely. The airport authorities were forced to shut operations for about one and half hours until the aircraft was towed away.