{"id":5879,"date":"2026-03-11T08:40:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=5879"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:40:49","slug":"129448215-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=5879","title":{"rendered":"Air India Express plane makes hard landing at Phuket airport; pictures show nose-wheel damage | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\">\n<div class=\"_s30J clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-129448754,imgsize-1004080,width-400,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"Air India Express plane makes hard landing at Phuket airport; pictures show nose-wheel damage\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: An Air India Express aircraft on Wednesday suffered a nose-wheel issue while landing at Phuket International Airport in Thailand, the airline confirmed to news agency PTI.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>A video surfaced online showed the aircraft making a rough touchdown on the runway, appearing to land abruptly and momentarily bounce before settling.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Authorities temporarily suspended flight operations at the airport after the aircraft became stuck on the runway, sources said. The number of passengers on board the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft was not immediately known.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component QbQNS undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"-\" msid=\"129448958\" width=\"\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"23456\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/imgsize-23456,msid-129448958\/.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>\u201cWe confirm that our Hyderabad-Phuket flight on March 11 experienced an issue with the nose wheel at Phuket Airport,\u201d Air India Express said in a statement.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>The nose wheel is a key component of an aircraft\u2019s landing gear system.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Flight IX 938 departed from Hyderabad at 6:42 am, slightly later than its scheduled departure time of 6:20 am, and landed at Phuket at 11:40 am local time, according to data from Flightradar24.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>\u201cThe crew followed all standard protocols, and guests were deplaned,\u201d the airline added in its statement.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/air-india-express-plane-makes-hard-landing-at-phuket-airport-pictures-show-nose-wheel-damage\/articleshow\/129448215.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: An Air India Express aircraft on Wednesday suffered a nose-wheel issue while landing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15538,15542,15540,724,15543,723,15541,719,720,721,15544,15539,722],"class_list":["post-5879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-air-india-express-nose-wheel-issue","tag-aircraft-landing-gear-problem","tag-boeing-737-max-8-landing-issues","tag-breaking-news","tag-flight-operations-suspended-at-phuket","tag-google-news","tag-hyderabad-to-phuket-flight-delays","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-passenger-safety-during-landing","tag-phuket-international-airport-incident","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}