A full emergency was declared at Kolkata Airport at 1:38 p.m. on Feb. 4, 2026, after a Turkish Airlines Airbus A330 flying from Kathmandu to Istanbul reported a fire in its right engine shortly after take-off and had to make a landing in Kolkata. According to the Civil Aviation Ministry, the crew managed to bring the situation under control at 1:31 pm, but the aircraft proceeded with one engine shut down.
"The flight declared PAN PAN, an international radio distress signal, due to the right engine on fire and requested to divert to Kolkata at 1.38 pm with one engine failure," a statement from the Ministry said.
The flight, operating as THY-727, was carrying 236 passengers. The pilots diverted the aircraft to Kolkata after alerting air traffic control about the engine fire. A full emergency landing was successfully carried out at 2:31 pm, and all passengers disembarked safely.
Officials at the NSCBI international airport here said no reports of injury to passengers were received.
A Kolkata airport official said passengers will be taken en route to their destination in another aircraft on Thursday morning.
The replacement aircraft will arrive at the NSCBI Airport at 4 am and fly off with the passengers at 6 am, he said.
"All the passengers and crew and captain have been shifted to the hotel," the official said.
Modern multi-engine jets are engineered to fly, climb, and land safely with only one engine operating, an airport official said.
They are also equipped with sophisticated, built-in fire detection and extinguishing systems designed to control and suppress fires in critical areas, he added.
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(With PTI inputs.)
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