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An IndiGo flight has been diverted to Karachi, right now the flaw is being investigated at the Karachi airport.
Digital Desk: An IndiGo flight from Sharjah to Hyderabad at midnight on Saturday and Sunday had to be diverted to Karachi due to an engine splurge.
The Airbus A320 arrived safely, and IndiGo is sending a ferry flight to Karachi to transport passengers to Hyderabad.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has ordered an investigation into this matter.
It's the second time in a fortnight that a commercial flight from an Indian carrier has been diverted to Karachi due to a suspected snag.
On July 5, a SpiceJet Boeing 737 MAX carrying nearly 160 passengers from Delhi to Dubai was forced to divert to Karachi due to a suspected fuel leak.
According to sources, the IndiGo diversion occurred because "pilots received an indication of a snag warning for engine number 2."
According to an Airbus bulletin, unless this warning appears twice, an aircraft should not divert and continue to its destination. However, as a precautionary measure, the pilots decided to divert to Karachi."
"IndiGo flight 6E-1406, operating from Sharjah to Hyderabad, was diverted to Karachi," an IndiGo spokesperson said. The pilot noticed a technical flaw. The necessary procedures were followed, and the aircraft was diverted to Karachi as a precaution. An additional flight has been dispatched to Karachi to transport passengers to Hyderabad."
According to flight tracking websites, the flight left Sharjah at 11:02 p.m. Saturday for a four-hour flight to Hyderabad. However, following the snag warning, it was diverted to Karachi, where it landed at 2.15 a.m. on Sunday (all timings local).
This is the second reported case of an IndiGo engine splurge in as many days. Its flight from Delhi to Vadodara was diverted to Jaipur on July 14 as a precautionary measure due to an engine snag. For a fraction of a second, there were vibrations in the engines. As a precaution, the pilots decided to divert to Jaipur.
According to engine manufacturers, the "environment" of the Middle East and India is the most difficult for their machines because it is hot, dusty, sandy, and humid (in India's case).
However, they claim that the behavior of engines in cold and dry environments differs from that of machines in harsh environments and that this issue is being addressed technologically.
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