Air India Flight heading for Bengaluru makes emergency landing in Mumbai after engine shutdown

Due to an engine shut down, an Air India flight flying from Mumbai had to return to the city soon after take-off. The flight was flying for Bengaluru but due to a technical malfunction, the plane had to make an emergency landing.

The DGCA stated that “the Air India flight was forced to turn back after a technical failure occurred minutes after the aircraft departed at 9.45 am.”

Reports suggest that soon after the takeoff, pilots received a warning in the cockpit indicating extremely high exhaust gas temperatures and a stall warning for the right-hand side engine. However, the ambulances and fire tenders were on standby and the aircraft had a safe but the emergency landing.

On investigating the technical failure, photographs of the engine show some damage to the compressor blades.