'Felt small jerk': Passenger recalls Air India flight mishap

Preliminary reports said that one of the wings of the flight hit an electric pole adjacent to the runway at Gannavaram airport.

An Air India flight from Doha, Qatar, suffered a mishap while landing at Vijayawada airport in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday. Authorities said the flight hit an electric pole while landing.

Air India flight from Doha had a minor mishap while landing at Gannavaram airport at Vijayawada. (ANI)

All the 64 passengers in the flight were safe, airport director G Madhusudan Rao said.

The flight was headed to Tiruchirapally (Trichy) in Tamil Nadu via Vijayawada. Of the 64 passengers in the flight, 19 passengers were to alight at Vijayawada, while the remaining 45 passengers were bound for Trichy.

"When the flight was about to land, its wing hit a light pole. The light pole broke and fell down. The flight wing is slightly damaged. This incident happened at 16.54 IST," news agency ANI quoted Rao as saying. “The airline authorities have ordered an investigation," he added.

According to the report by ANI, Ramareddy, one of the passengers who boarded the flight at Doha, said, "There was a small jerk and we passengers felt nothing except that jerk. The pilot was alert. Nothing happened to anybody.”