A Go First flight, flying from Bengaluru in India to Male in Maldives, with 92 passengers made an emergency landing in Coimbatore due to a faulty smoke alarm.
The pilot of the flight detected the smoke warning while flying over Tamil Nadu's textile city, reports NDTV.
The airport authorities in Coimbatore, however, said it was a "false alarm".
The false alarm went off after the twin engines allegedly overheated.
The engineers checked the engines and declared that there was some fault in the alarm and declared that the aircraft was fit to fly.
Last month, India’s Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia held meeting with chiefs of Indian carriers after reports of multiple technical malfunction incidents during the last one month. Scindia told each airline to take all necessary steps that are needed to ramp up safety oversight.
Earlier in the last week, an aircraft of Go First returned to Ahmedabad after it suffered a bird strike within a few minutes of take-off on Thursday.
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