MUMBAI, March 12 -- An Air India Express aircraft operating its Hyderabad-Phuket (Thailand) flight suffered a nose-wheel issue at Phuket Airport, the airline said on Wednesday.
Authorities suspended flight operations at Phuket airport following the incident since the aircraft is stuck on the runway, sources said.
The number of passengers onboard the Boeing 737-Max8 aircraft was not immediately known.
"We confirm that our Hyderabad-Phuket flight on March 11 experienced an issue with the nose wheel at Phuket Airport," Air India Express said in a statement.
Nose wheel is a critical component of an aircraft's landing gear system. Flight IX 938 took off from Hyderabad at 6.42 am instead of its scheduled departure time of 6.20 am, and landed ...