An Akasa Air flight from Pune to Delhi experienced a bird strike during its journey on Friday morning but landed safely at Indira Gandhi International Airport without incident.
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An Akasa Air flight from Pune to Delhi experienced a bird strike during its journey on Friday morning but landed safely at Indira Gandhi International Airport without incident.
An Akasa Air flight from Pune to Delhi experienced a bird strike during its journey on Friday morning but landed safely at Indira Gandhi International Airport without incident. All passengers and crew members were safely deplaned after landing.
Flight QP1607, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, arrived in Delhi shortly after 10 a.m., according to flight tracking platform Flightradar24. The aircraft is being examined by Akasa Air’s engineering team in accordance with standard operating procedures and will be released for service after a thorough inspection.
The aircraft was scheduled to operate a subsequent flight from Delhi to Goa later in the day, but the departure was delayed for a few hours as another aircraft was deployed on the route. Akasa Air confirmed that the incident did not affect its wider flight operations.
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