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As many as 168 passengers and crew had a lucky escape when an Air Asia flight made an emergency landing at Dabolim International Airport minutes after it had taken off early Monday morning.
All passengers were safe and there was no loss of life or injury to any passenger in the incident, sources said.
According to sources, the incident occurred at around 7.35 am on Monday morning. Sources said the Air Asia flight left for Bangalore when it developed a technical snag shortly after take off.
The flight then made an emergency landing at the airport within 10 minutes of departure.
Sources said that the pilot noticed a technical snag in the hydraulic system attached to the rear tyre of the flight. The fight immediately returned to the Dabolim after airport authorities were alerted and necessary permission for emergency landing was granted.
Sources said this is the second recent instance of emergency landing at Dabolim Airport. The stranded passengers were later moved to Bangalore by an alternative flight arranged by Air Asia.
