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IndiGo flight suffers damage, makes emergency landing after vulture hits plane

All 175 passengers are safe after emergency landing at Ranchi airport.

Sources at Nagpur airport confirmed the emergency landing, and the bomb squad immediately inspected the aircraft.(Representational image)

A Ranchi-bound IndiGo flight with 175 passengers onboard made an emergency landing at the city’s Birsa Munda Airport after a bird hit on Monday. The incident occurred at 1.14 pm after a vulture hit the aircraft at around 3,000 to 4,000 feet.

According to officials, all passengers and crew members are safe, while the Airbus 320 suffered damage.
R R Maurya, the director of Birsa Munda Airport, confirmed that all the passengers are safe, but the “aircraft suffered a dent after being hit by a vulture. Engineers are assessing the damage,” he said.

“An IndiGo flight suffered a bird hit near Ranchi. It was approximately 10 to 12 nautical miles away from here at an altitude of 3,000 to 4,000 feet when the incident occurred,” Maurya said.

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The flight had taken off from Patna, Bihar. After was initially scheduled to depart for Kolkata after stopping at Ranchi.

A similar incident occurred in December 2024 when a Guwahati-bound IndiGo flight returned to Bhubaneswar after it reportedly struck a bird shortly after taking off.