Reports suggest that the flight was diverted due to a medical emergency, and developed a technical glitch during landing.
Pilot İlçehin Pehlivan, 59, lost consciousness at some point after Flight TK204 took off from Seattle Tuesday night, Turkish Airlines spokesperson Yahya Üstün said in a statement.
The flight, SG-515, took off from the Kolkata airport at 6.17 am with 176 passengers and six crew members, they said.
IndiGo officials refuted reports claiming the emergency landing was due to an engine failure.
Air India, in a statement, said that its flight AI858 operating on Pune-Delhi route landed ahead of its scheduled time following a minor crack on the aircraft's windshield.
In a statement, Etihad Airways apologised to passengers for the delay to their travel plans, and stated the aircraft made a normal landing in Bangalore, and after the necessary technical inspections, the flight proceeded to Abu Dhabi, where it landed early this morning.
The helicopter had taken off from Jodhpur airbase for Phalodi airbase.
According to information received, the flight i5-2472 took off at about 6.45 AM on Saturday.
The Boeing 737, operating as flight SG83, took off with 178 passengers and six crew members from the Kolkata airport for Bangkok around 1.09 am. Minutes later, the pilot noticed that a blade of the left engine was broken, they said.
A full emergency was declared at the international airport at 8.04 PM and the aircraft landed safely at 8.26 PM, the Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) spokesperson said.
The National Security Guard (NSG) and local police teams completed checking the aircraft on Tuesday morning after the flight made an emergency landing here on Monday night, they said.
A Turkish Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing on Wednesday after an intoxicated passenger created a ruckus on board
The plane landed safely and passengers disembarked through the emergency exit. One passenger sustained minor scratches on the feet while disembarking from the aircraft, a DGCA official said.
Sources in the airport said the flight with 135 passengers originated from Kozhikode and landed in the Kannur airport before flying to Delhi.
Vincent Fraser was flying with his father-in-law over Swain County when the engine of his aircraft began to fail.
A DHL cargo jet broke in half after making an emergency landing at Costa Rica’s Juan Santa Maria international airport on Thursday.
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There were 139 passengers on board apart from the crew members.
After the emergency, the aircraft landed at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi early on November 18
Aviation regulator DGCA has suspended the licence of an aircraft maintenance engineer of GoAir for failing to detect a fault and clearing the aircraft which had to make an emergency landing at the Delhi airport.
Over 100 people on board US' Southwest Airlines flight had a lucky escape when a part of the plane's engine was ripped off thousands of feet above the Gulf of Mexico with the passengers experiencing anxious moments before the jet managed to make an emergency landing.
Europe, Japan and India on Thursday joined the United States in grounding Boeing Co's 787, a day after a second incident involving battery failure caused one of the Dreamliner passenger jets to make an emergency landing.
Japan's two leading airlines grounded their fleets of Boeing 787s on Wednesday after one of the Dreamliner passenger jets made an emergency landing, heightening safety concerns over a plane many see as the future of commercial aviation.