New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Air India's Pune-Delhi flight, with 180 passengers on board, safely made an emergency landing at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport here on Tuesday after a windshield crack.Full emergency was declared at the airport."The pilot of the flight requested an emergency landing and it finally landed at the IGI at 5.50 p.m.," a source said.The pilot had suspected that something was wrong, and checked to find that the windshield had a crack. Though it was a minor crack, but as a precautionary measure, he decided to make an emergency landing, officials said.
It is suspected that a bird might have hit the windshield.
--IANS atk/vd
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