An Air-India flight en-route from Delhi to Paris returned shortly after take-off after the Delhi Air Traffic Control (ATC) alerted about a suspected tyre debris that it sighted on the runway after departure.
An Air India spokesperson said, Flight AI143 operating Delhi-Paris on 28 July 2023 air-returned shortly after take-off, following the Delhi ATC’s information to flight crew about suspected tyre debris sighted on the runway after departure." The flight safely landed back in Delhi at 2:18 PM. Alternate arrangements are being made for the passengers of the flight to get to their destinations, the spokesperson said.
Sources in the know said the aircraft had apparently suffered a tyre burst and that there were around 208 passengers onboard the plane. Another aircraft carrying the passengers departed for Paris from Delhi airport at around 2047 hours, an airline official said. According to the Flight Radar app, the airplane, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, circled over Charkhi Dadri in Haryana, about 100 km from Delhi, for about 40 minutes before landing safely at the Delhi airport.
