A Guwahati-bound IndiGo flight from Mumbai made an emergency landing in Dhaka due to low visibility on Saturday morning.
Around 4am, the flight, 6E 5319, was forced to make an emergency landing in the Bangladesh capital city, about 400km from its destination, after dense fog reduced visibility.
One of the passengers in the flight was Suraj Singh Thakur, former Mumbai Youth Congress chief, who was scheduled to travel to Imphal for the party's Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra after landing in Guwahati. Taking to X, he posted,
"I took @IndiGo6E flight 6E 5319 from Mumbai to Guwahati. But due to dense fog, the flight couldn't land in Guwahati. Instead, it landed in Dhaka. Now all the passengers are in Bangladesh without their passports, we are inside the plane."
Another flier also expressed his frustration on X, saying, "@IndiGo6E, stuck inside aircraft with 178 passengers for 9 hours now, flying 6E 5319 from Mumbai to Guwahati. We made a landing in Dhaka around 4am because of lower visibility in the North East. We have been waiting for another crew for 4 hours now, can we please expedite?"
