Air India bird strike: Tata Group-owned full-service airline operator, Air India's flight number AI274 from Colombo to Chennai suffered a bird strike on Tuesday, 7 October 2025. Also Read | DGCA investigates ‘uncommanded’ RAT deployment on Air India's Boeing plane to UK

What happened to the aircraft?

The flight reportedly made a safe landing at the Chennai International Airport (MAA) on Tuesday, and all the passengers were safely disembarked from the plane.

In an official statement, the company also disclosed that the bird strike was detected after the aircraft made a touchdown at Chennai Airport . Prior to this, the flight crew who operated the previous route (Chennai to Colombo) in the same aircraft had suspected that such an incident had occurred, but the engineers found no

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