An Air India Colombo-Chennai flight with 158 passengers onboard suffered a bird hit on Tuesday (October 7), following which the airline cancelled its return journey.

Airport authorities said that the aircraft landed safely and all the passengers were unscathed and safely disembarked from the aircraft.

Aircraft grounded

They further revealed that a bird hit was detected after the aircraft landed in Chennai, following which the aircraft was grounded. The aircraft has been subjected to extensive checks by the Air India engineers, and the airline officials cancelled its return journey due to the incident. Airport authorities said that Air India arranged another aircraft for 137 passengers who later left for Colombo.

“On 7 October, the flight crew of AI273 operating from Chennai to Colombo,

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