08 Sep 2019, 9:00 AM
Thai AirAsia has apologised for the emergency landing of an Airbus A320 plane at the the Maldives international airport on Thursday night after its engine caught fire.
The FD178 flight bound for Bangkok with 58 passengers departed at 8:25pm and landed back safely at 8:41pm.
“The aircraft encountered a technical issue during takeoff, upon which the pilots turned back and requested a priority landing at Male’s Velana International Airport, in line with standard operating procedures,” AirAsia said in a statement on Friday.
The flight was cancelled and passengers departed on a new flight on Friday afternoon. They were “safe and taken care of with food and drinks and the airline provided them with hotel rooms,” AirAsia said. “We would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused.”
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