Runway closed due to emergency landing of Etihad Airways flight at Hulhule

A flight of Etihad Airways has landed in emergency at Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (INIA) after one and a half hour of departure from INIA.

An official of airport said to Sun Online that airport runway has been closed after EY279 flight of Etihad Airways that departed at 7:10 pm this evening from INIA to Abu Dhabi made an emergency landing at INIA at around 8:30 this evening due to leakage of hydraulic oil.

According to the official, there were a total of 189 passengers and crews and no one was injured in the incident. Official added that some flights have been delayed and a flight has been diverted to Colombo due to emergency landing of EY279 flight.

While INIA runway has been closed due to fuel leakage from a flight of Etihad Airways this evening, airport was brought to emergency status and runway has been closed on Saturday evening after a Flyme flight which headed to Baa Dharanvandhoo landed in emergency at INIA following a bomb threat, however, airport runway was reopened at 1:45 am Sunday.