Chennai: Condor attempts an emergency landing at Chennai airport on March 30 due to technical failure of a SpiceJet flight. After this flight left Jaipur airport, it faced a technical failure in the air due to which landing was done at 5:46 AM swiftly.
After landing, immediate efforts were made to ensure that the flight’s engine’s diesel oil was appropriately replaced by using a mobile unit specially delivered for such emergencies. Aviation authorities stated that in SG9046, all passengers and crew were safely evacuated through emergency means.
This incident is similar to the one that happened two days earlier when the airline had declared that its IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) certification was formally renewed by the office of its validation and this was declared valid till March 2027. In December 2024, the same day two planes faced a technical malfunction leading to a same-day diversion, where a single fleet containing 117 passengers was diverted due to a jet engine failure. After which, the huge task of draining the diesel oil done by a mobile unit and a swift landing was taken on the Chennai airport’s emergency landing runway.
