High-Stakes Drama: Air India Express Flight’s Bengaluru Return Uncovers Safety Threats

On 03 Aug 2025 Air India Express IX2718 (VT-KUL) from Bengaluru to Kolkata made a mid-air turn back to Bengaluru after it developed a hydraulic snag shortly after take off. The A320 which departed from Kempegowda International Airport at 7:16 pm yesterday landed safely back at 9:19 pm and a full emergency was declared around 8:20 pm as a precautionary measure.

The airport sources have confirmed a technical issue. The fact that there was some sort of a hydraulic snag in the particular Air India Express flight that had to take a mid-air U-turn yesterday. The flight took off at around 7:16 p.m in the evening from Kempegowda International Airport Limited which was headed towards Kolkata.

However around 8:21 p.m a full emergency was declared because it was found a mid air hydraulic snag is what the Air India Express or the technical experts have mentioned. The flight made a landing at a Bengaluru International Airport Limited the Kempegowda International Airport.

The passengers are safe and it is under investigation as to why this ah mid air hydraulic snag happened.

Replacement Flight Arranged by Air India Express

According to Radar24, On 4th August 2025, Air India Express arranged a replacement flight from Bengaluru (BLR) to Kolkata (CCU) using an Airbus A320 (VT-VTZ) after the originally scheduled flight was delayed due to a technical snag. The replacement flight took off at 2:39 AM and landed at 4:51 AM, ahead of its scheduled arrival at 5:24 AM. Despite the disruption, passengers reached their destination with minimal delay. The total flight duration was approximately 2 hours and 12 minutes.

Is Air India Doing Enough to Ensure Flight Safety?

Air India is facing multiple problems in the last couple of days. We have also seen some of the incidents that have been unfolding with Air India. So, will there be a detailed check with respect to Air India’s quality of flights.

The fact that there have been several technical snags that have been reported over the past few weeks and you know coming in first is always Air India and now it’s an Air India Express flight.

The measures that are being taken at this point in time even from the side of the DGCA regarding the condition of these aircrafts. Well with respect to the DGCA DGCM might issue notice to the Air India because it has found not only the DGCA but various other airlines and people who are flying from various other countries have found there have been technical snags in Air India flights of late so there might be an internal investigation from the Air India itself and also the DGC might also ask a report as to why a technical glitch or snags are happening with in the Air India flights and will also there be a total run through of all their flights. 

Will there be a quality recheck? Again will the government intervene in this is the point of question which has to be answered by Airlines. 

We have seen what happened at Ahmedabad. And there was another incident with respect to Air India in the last couple of weeks as well. So, if this continues, the airline will have to face a battle between the DGCA and the passengers. So at this point of time probably there might be some technical glitches with Air India and they will have to recuse themselves so that the passengers can get back to Air India safely and passengers can fly safely.

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