Panic erupted at Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram International Airport and a full emergency was declared on Friday after a Dammam-bound flight from Calicut was diverted to the state capital due to a suspected hydraulic failure. As per reports, the flight landed at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport at 12.15 PM amid a full emergency. Furthermore, reports suggest that the tail part of the Air-India Express IX 385, carrying 182 passengers, hit the runway during take-off from the Calicut International Airport in the morning. The flight was supposed to go to Saudi Arabia. As a result, the flight landed at the airport after dumping fuel over the Arabian Sea to facilitate a safe landing.
The flight landed at the airport at 12.15 PM, after dumping fuel over the Arabian Sea to facilitate safe landing. The airport management declared a full emergency.Notably, it is not the first full emergency declared. On February 19, a full emergency was declared at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport after an Air India Express flight from Dubai to Thiruvananthapuram encountered a mechanical issue in the operation of the aircraft's nose wheel. The aeroplane IX 540, with 156 passengers and crew, made a safe emergency landing at the airport at 5.40 am.