Smoke floods the cabin as Indian airliner makes emergency landing

• Cabin filled with smoke soon after take-off for Jabalpur, India’s SpiceJet says.
• Passengers evacuated safely once aircraft returned to Delhi’s airport.
• No-frills carrier SpiceJet has been in the news in recent months for faulty training practices.

The cabin of an Indian domestic flight that was headed for the central city of Jabalpur; quickly filled with smoke, prompting an emergency landing in New Delhi, according to the airline. Once the aircraft reached the airport in Delhi, passengers on board the flight; which was operated by the commercial airline SpiceJet; were safely evacuated.

The crew discovered smoke in the cabin “when reaching 5,000 feet;” the airline wrote on Twitter. After the event, a video that claimed to depict the smoke-filled cabin; soon became popular on social media.

SpiceJet, a no-frills airline, has made headlines recently when another flight; had to make an emergency landing last month after its left engine caught fire; and aviation regulators have been harsh in their criticism of the firm; for its subpar training procedures.

The airline did not provide information regarding the number of passengers on board, the flight on Saturday; only that it had “safely” landed and that alternate transportation; had been “quickly provided” for customers.

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#WATCH | A SpiceJet aircraft operating from Delhi to Jabalpur returned safely to the Delhi airport today morning after the crew noticed smoke in the cabin while passing 5000ft; passengers safely disembarked: SpiceJet Spokesperson pic.twitter.com/R1LwAVO4Mk

— ANI (@ANI) July 2, 2022

In June, an engine fire forced a SpiceJet flight with 185 passengers headed for New Delhi; to make an emergency landing in the eastern Indian city of Patna. In May, the low-cost airline cancelled or delayed flights; as a result of a “attempted ransomware assault;” leaving hundreds of customers stranded inside their aircraft.

The airline was fined one million Indian rupees (about $12,830) by Indian aviation; regulators for instructing its Boeing 737 MAX pilots on a subpar simulator.

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