Air mishap averted as Jet Airways flight, with 104 people onboard, makes emergency landing after engine failure

According to a flight monitoring site, the aircraft was travelling at 850 mph when the engine failure was reported midway through the 82-minute flight. “The airline has informed authorities of the event and Jet Airways’ engineering teams are inspecting the aircraft. Jet regrets the inconvenience caused to its guests,” TOI quoted a spokesperson as saying.

The incident comes a week after a Mumbai-Jaipur Jet Airways flight made an emergency landing in Mumbai after a drop in cabin pressure resulted in at least 30 passengers suffering from nosebleed and pain. The loss of pressure was due to a manual glitch after the cabin crew did not put the bleed switch on to normalise pressure at higher altitude. Thirty passengers on board flight 9W 697 suffered barotrauma.

Last week, a fault in the air conditioning system on a Delhi-bound Jet Airways flight forced passengers to fly in discomfort. A day before, in a similar episode on a Chennai-bound flight, passengers complained that the cooling was not functioning well.