PUNE: Passengers on Kochi-Pune SpiceJet flight went through anxious moments on Thursday due to a fire scare. Flight number SG-184 , which comes from Kochi to Pune and then proceeds to Delhi, landed much before schedule at the Pune airport . As the passengers were disembarking, the crew made a sudden announcement asking them to immediately get back to their seats and wait.When the passengers wanted to know why, the crew told them there could be a fire. The SpiceJet passengers who spent anxious moments after the crew pressed the panic button over a fire scare said the flight landed at the Pune airport from Kochi a good 25 minutes earlier than schedule."The flight generally reaches Pune around 3.30pm after taking off from Kochi at 1.45 pm.However, this flight reached Pune much earlier, around 3.05pm," a passenger said.Passengers began disembarking when the doors opened. However, panic soon broke out when the crew suddenly told the passengers to hurry up and disembark. "The crew looked a bit worried. A while later, they changed tack and told the passengers to get back to their seats. One of the crew members then said something about a fire. A little later, the disembarking resumed from the front door, and then from both doors," the passenger said. Another passenger said he saw a tinge of smoke coming out of one engine.In an official statement, SpiceJet said the flight's onward trip to Delhi was not delayed. "SpiceJet flight SG-184, Kochi to Pune, arrived ahead of schedule in Pune. After shutdown, the ground engineer observed smoke, probably caused due to burning of residual fuel or oil, coming out of the tail pipe of the left engine.Immediately, the ground engineer and the pilots followed the standard procedure and rotated the engine to clear the engine tail pipe.Additionally, as a safety precaution, the passengers were disembarked expeditiously.Since no abnormalities were observed, the flight continued to Delhi," a SpiceJet spokesperson said.

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