Summary:
BHOPAL: A Surat-Kolkata IndiGo flight with 172 passengers on board made an emergency landing at Bhopal airport due to a technical glitch on Sunday. Indigo flyer has called it 'precautionary' landing instead of emergency landing. The pilot informed the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) about the technical glitch and made an emergency landing safely. "Indigo officials told us that it was a precautionary landing and not an emergency landing" the airport director added. Last year on December 23 a Bangalore-Delhi Indigo flight had made an emergency landing in Bhopal after a passenger fell ill.
After sanitization the flight was allowed to take off for Delhi..