Air India flight makes emergency landing at Kannur airport; authorities reveal what the problem was

KANNUR: Information that the Air India Express flight which was going from Kozhikode to Dubai had to make an emergency landing at the Kannur airport. The flight had a technical problem as soon as it took off from Kozhikode this morning. The problem was noticed within 15 minutes of take-off at 9:50.

The plane was turned back after smoke billowed from the cargo hold. The plane made an emergency landing at Kannur due to work being done on some runways at the Kozhikode airport. The airport authorities clarified that all the passengers were brought out of the flight by 11 am and there were no problems. There were 176 people on board including the crew.