Dense fog forces Mumbai-Guwahati IndiGo flight to make emergency landing in Dhaka
PTC News Desk: A Guwahati-bound IndiGo flight reportedly made an emergency landing in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka due to dense fog. The flight was diverted after failing to land at the Guwahati airport.
Suraj Singh Thakur, former Mumbai Youth Congress chief, posted on X that his flight from Mumbai to Guwahati had landed in Dhaka.
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"I took IndiGo6E flight 6E 5319 from Mumbai to Guwahati. But due to dense fog, the flight couldn't land in Guwahati. Instead, it landed in Dhaka," he said. All passengers onboard the flight had crossed the international border without their passports, he added.
Thakur stated that the passengers are still inside the plane. "I am stuck inside aircraft for 9 hours now. I left for Manipur (Imphal) for the Bharat jodo nyay yatra. Let's see when I reach Guwahati and then will fly to Imphal," he wrote.
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