JetLite plane suffers bird hit, aborts take off

Lucknow: A JetLite plane with 144 passengers and crew members on board suffered a bird hit while taxiing at the runway at the Lucknow airport on Thursday morning, forcing it to abort take off.

The Lucknow-Delhi flight S2138 was taxiing on the runway when it suffered a bird-hit at 7:20 AM, an airline spokesperson said, adding, all the passengers and crew members were safe.

The aircraft, a Boeing 737, then returned to the bay. Engineers are inspecting the damage.

"We are accommodating all passengers in another flight," the spokesperson said.