Overview
- IndiGo flight 6E925, carrying 104 passengers and six crew, was reportedly struck by lightning at about 17,000 feet while approaching Lucknow on Wednesday and landed safely at Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport.
- Airport teams noticed visible damage to the aircraft's nose radome after it vacated the runway and engineers declared the jet Aircraft on Ground to begin a detailed technical inspection.
- The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has been informed and the plane will need required repairs and regulator clearance before it can return to service.
- IndiGo arranged a replacement aircraft and all affected passengers continued to Ahmedabad on a new flight that departed at about 6:22 pm.
- Commercial airframes and radomes are designed to channel lightning strikes without losing control but investigators will review affected systems and maintenance records and will consider a similar June lightning incident in Kolkata as part of oversight.