Indigo engine woes return: Ranchi flight makes u-turn

NEWDELHI: A Delhi-ranchi Indigo flight with 190 people on board suffered a mid-air engine snag on Sunday and returned to the national capital, signalling the return of problems with Pratt and Whitney (P&W) engines that power the airline’s Airbus A320 Neo (new engine option) jets.

The flight, 6E-509, had to turn around mid-air on Sunday afternoon after the pilots detected a snag in one of the engines and conveyed the news to the Delhi ATC, said an airport official on the condition of anonymity.

Data from flight tracking website flightradar24 showed the aircraft taking a u-turn above Aligarh in UP before beginning its descent back in Delhi. The plane was carrying 183 people and seven crew members. Most modern passenger jets have two engines and can operate with one functional engine.

“The aircraft, VT-ITE Neo, had an air turn back to Delhi. The crew carried out an engine inflight shut down following the standard industry procedure. The aircraft landed back safely at Delhi with 183 passengers and 7 crew on board,” the airline said.