Hailstorm Damages IndiGo Plane During Landing at Hyderabad Airport  

Hyderabad: An IndiGo flight from Ahmedabad to Hyderabad was damaged by a hailstorm during its landing descent due to hailstorm at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International (RGI) Airport. No crew members or passengers were injured in this incident that occurred on Saturday.

According to Directorate General of Civil Aviation sources, IndiGo flight 6E 6594 was hit by a hailstorm during its descent towards the RGI airport in Shamshabad. The radome and the windshield of the plane were damaged.

The flight, 6E 6594, sustained damage to its nose and windshields but managed to land safely on runway 27L, with no reported injuries to passengers or crew.

Photos of the damaged aircraft’s nose and windshields went viral on social media.

Heavy rainfall and hailstorms due to western disturbances lashed Hyderabad and other districts of Telangana for the past few days. Hyderabad experienced one of the rarest and strongest hailstorm events in the last many years.