NEW DELHI: Emergency evacuation of an IndiGo aircraft which arrived at IGI Airport from Mumbai on Wednesday left about 30 passengers with minor injuries. Following a fire scare, the passengers had to be deplaned on the taxiway with emergency chutes. The scare was possibly caused by overheating of brakes under hard braking as the Airbus A-320 had landed on Runway 27, which is the shortest of IGI's three airstrips. The incident happened at 3.35pm when 6E-176 landed with 148 passengers, including an infant, and six crew on board. "The plane landed uneventfully. When it was taxiing towards Terminal 1D (used by low-cost carriers' domestic flights), air traffic controllers saw thick smoke...
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