New Delhi, January 3: 99 emergency landings by Aircrafts in the country in 2 years, says Minister of Civil Aviation: Minister of Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha informed on the table of Rajya Sabha that there were a total of 99 occurrences in the country in the past two years.
Though, the number declined by 35% in 2017 as compared to the previous year. As per the figures are given by Minister of Civil Aviation. It was observed that there were 60 cases of emergency landings in 2016 and 39 cases in 2017.
Out of these, Air India accounted for nearly a third of such instances, with 27 emergencies. Jet Airways had 14 emergency landings, SpiceJet had 11 such incidents and IndiGo 10.