Union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma had some anxious moments on Wednesday evening abroad a Budapest-London British Airways flight, after smoke emanated from one of the engines.
The plane made an emergency landing at Dusseldorf in Germany, where all passengers were evacuated and sent to their destinations by a Lufthansa flight, Ministry officials said here on Thursday.
In mid-air, smoke engulfed the engines, the plane had to be diverted and had to perform emergency landing, the airline said in a statement. “We apologise to passengers on flight BA 869, Budapest to Heathrow [London], which diverted to Dusseldorf this afternoon as a precautionary measure due to a technical problem,”
Mr. Sharma boarded the flight after attending an Indo-Hungary Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation meeting. He was headed for London to attend the India-U.K. Joint Economic Trade Committee meeting.
