HIGHLIGHTS

* A smartphone battery faced malfunction inside a Delhi-bound Air India flight.
* The incident occurred just as the plane was about to take off from the runway.
* The plane could take off normally after an hour of the incident taking place.
* Though such incidents are rare however with solid state Batteries and Quantum Batteries in mobile phones in the future this kind of MalFunction or problem will rarely occur.

A Delhi-bound Air India flight got delayed in Udaipur on Monday after a passenger’s cell phone battery faced malfunction during take-off. The cell phone battery faced the problem after the plane took off from Udaipur’s Dabok Airport for Delhi.

However, official checked and fixed the issue and then the plane took off from Udaipur within an hour. The pilot landed the plane after smoke was seen in the plane.

Notably, this is the second incident involving Air India that has come to light in the last couple of days. However, no one was injured flowing the explosion of the cell phone.

A similar incident was reported last month when Air India’s San Francisco-bound flight made emergency landing in Russia’s Magadan after a mid-air engine failure.

The Delhi-SFO flight was then diverted to the port city following a mid-air glitch in one of the Boeing 777-200LR engines. Over 200 passengers was stranded there for two days and the flight landed in San Francisco on June 8.

Later on June 7, Air India sent a ferry flight to Magadan, in Russia to fly 216 stranded passengers and 16 crew members onward to their original destination San Francisco. “Flight AI173D landed safely in San Francisco (SFO) at 0007 Hours on 08 June 2023 (local time),” the airline had said.

Prior to this incident, an IndiGo flight – 6E 2134 which took off from Delhi for Dehradun in Uttarakhand made emergency landing at Delhi airport shortly after take-off.

The flight made a priority landing after it received a ‘warning signal’ due to some technical issue.
The airline in a statement said: “IndiGo flight 6E 2134 from Delhi to Dehradun returned to its origin due to a technical issue. The pilot informed the ATC as per procedure and requested a priority landing.”

An Air India flight aborted its takeoff after a passenger’s smartphone battery faced Malfunction inside the plane. This was a Delhi-bound flight from Udaipur, and the malfunction took place just as the plane was about to take from the runway, but the flight could make its way back after an hour of the incident.

A Delhi-bound Air India flight got delayed in landing after a passenger’s cell phone battery faced some serious malfunction during takeoff.
A pilot landed the plane after smoke was seen in the plane.

However, after checking and fixing the issue. The plane took off from Udaipur within an hour after an emergency landing.

Last month, on June 21, an IndiGo flight – 6E 2134 – that took off from Delhi for Dehradun in Uttarakhand made a priority landing at Delhi airport shortly after takeoff.

IndiGo sources have said that the flight made a priority landing after it received a ‘warning signal’ due to some technical issue.

In a statement issued the airline had said: “IndiGo flight 6E 2134 from Delhi to Dehradun returned to its origin due to a technical issue. The pilot informed the ATC as per procedure and requested a priority landing.”

Air India flight Smartphone Battery MalFunction

The Air India flight was taking off from Udaipur’s Dabok Airport for Delhi. This is where the smartphone of a passenger faced this issue.
There’s no information though on what phone it was, and from which brand. There were no injuries or casualties reported inside the plane which had a total of 140 passengers.

After the pilot aborted the takeoff, some of the passengers were reportedly deplaned. Post the incident, the plane was examined, and it could take off within an hour for Delhi.
Some reports have claimed that the Delhi-bound flight made an emergency landing.

However, a Twitter user named Chandrashekhar Sardesai claimed that his friend was in the same flight and reiterated that the Air India flight never took off from the runway.

The MalFunction took place when the plane was still in taxi, and it took off only after the matter was cleared. The incident taking place mid-air has been falsely reported, but the malfunction did take place.

Smartphone explosions aren’t a new thing to hear of anymore, which shouldn’t be the case. The cause of these explosions are usually due to faulty batteries or phones overheating.

In some cases, the explosion is a small one not causing any fatal injury to the person involved. But there have been reports of cases where the person suffers burns due to the explosion.

Phone Battery MalFunction Solution

Though such incidents are rare however with solid state Batteries and Quantum Batteries in mobile phones in the future this kind of MalFunction or problem will rarely occur.

Faqs

1) Did Delhi-bound Air India flight make an emergency landing after phone explodes during takeoff.Details?

Ans) An emergency landing was not performed in Udaipur when a passenger’s phone exploded just before departure on an Air India flight headed for Delhi. Actually there was a battery malfunction on passengers phone. The incident on the cellphone sent the passengers into chaos. Soon after the jet departed for Delhi from Udaipur’s Dabok Airport, the phone blew up, India Today reported.

Yet within an hour following the emergency landing, the jet departed from Udaipur after being examined and the problem is resolved. According to ETV Bharat, the pilot of Air India flight 470 had to make an unexpected landing when a passenger’s cell phone blew.

After passing all technical inspections, the airplane continued on to Delhi. The mobile phone battery accident inside the plane caused a commotion among the passengers throughout the entire flight itself. At 1:00 pm, this aircraft departed Udaipur for Delhi. The passenger’s cell phone’s battery burst not long after takeoff.

There were 140 people in all on the aircraft. Some of the passengers were lifted out from the aircraft after the emergency touchdown at Udaipur’s Dabok Airport. The aircraft was then thoroughly examined, and only once all was in order was the flight given permission to continue to Delhi.

An IndiGo aircraft (6E 2134) bound for Dehradun, Uttarakhand, performed an immediate landing at the Delhi airport right after departure last month on June 21. According to sources at IndiGo, the plane made a priority landing after receiving a ‘warning signal’ because of a mechanical problem.

2) Passenger’s mobile explodes midair, Udaipur-Delhi Air India flight makes emergency landing.Details?

Ans) After a passenger’s mobile phone battery faced Malfunction onboard an Air India flight from Udaipur to Delhi during its takeoff, the plane made an Delayed Landing. According to reports, the flight AI470 made an emergency landing at the Udaipur Airport, but its not confirmed.

All passengers are reportedly safe and the flight again departed for the national capital after a complete technical check-up. Reportedly, three to four passengers refused to board the flight after the emergency landing.
The flight AI 470 was delayed by at least an hour and later took off for Delhi, one of the officials said.

An airline official said there was a malfunction of the mobile phone charger of a passenger.
Further, the airline official said the passenger noticed overheating of the mobile phone and alerted the cabin crew. Subsequently, the aircraft, which had pushed back, returned as a precautionary measure to ensure the safety of the passengers.

However, an official at the Udaipur airport said that there was apparently smoke onboard the aircraft following which it returned after pushback. While the exact sequence of the development could not be immediately ascertained, reports claimed that there was an issue with a power bank of a passenger.

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