MP Shashi Tharoor's flight makes emergency landing

The Air India flight (AI 433) which was going to New Delhi with 127 passengers including former minister and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and seven crew members on board made an emergency landing in Gaya. The emergency landing was made soon after taking off following oil leakage in its landing wheel. The Airbus A320 aircraft, after being airborne for about 10 minutes, returned to the airport as its landing gear did not retract due to an oil leakage, forcing the pilot to seek an emergency landing said the airport officials.

Among the 127 passengers many were foreigners including from Japan, Sri Lanka and Thailand, he said, adding they have been accommodated in hotels in and around Bodh Gaya. Shashi Tharoor, MP from Thiruvananthapuram took to twitter to say this, "Mid-air drama: my @airindiain flight from Gaya to Delhi via Varanasi developed problems and made an emergency return to Gaya. Everyone's OK". He sent out another tweet as well, "@AnshumanSail @airindiain all OK. Landing gear didn't retract. Would have been worse if landing gear didn't descend."