Chennai, Aug. 11 -- An Air India flight travelling from Thiruvananthapuram towards Delhi, carrying several senior political leaders, was forced to make an emergency landing at Chennai airport late on Sunday, following a suspected radar malfunction.

Flight AI 2455, which took off from Thiruvananthapuram, had among its passengers, four MPs from Kerala - Congress General Secretary K.C. Venugopal, UDF Convenor Adoor Prakash, senior Congress leader Kodikunnil Suresh, and K. Radhakrishnan - along with Tamil Nadu MP Robert Bruce.

Speaking to media persons soon after landing, K.C. Venugopal described the ordeal as a "narrow escape from a major mishap".

He said, "There was a radar issue in the aircraft, which forced the crew to make an emergenc...