Jet Lite plane makes emergency landing

Around 150 passengers and four crew members of a Jet Lite flight had a narrow escape on Tuesday when the aircraft was hit by a bird soon after take-off from the airport here and had to make an emergency landing, airport sources said.

Around 150 passengers and four crew members of a Jet Lite flight had a narrow escape on Tuesday when the aircraft was hit by a bird soon after take-off from the airport here and had to make an emergency landing, airport sources said.

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Airport sources said the pilot of the Bangalore bound flight which took off at 6 pm made an emergency landing at the NSC Bose International Airport here when he realised that something "had hit the plane".

According to an airport source, the plane was hit by a bird.

No one on board the plane was injured and the aircraft was also not damaged.

The flight again took-off for Bangalore after a one and a half hour delay.