6E646 - Incident: Indigo A20N at Surat on Feb 26th 2023

An Indigo Airbus A320-200N, registration VT-IZI performing flight 6E-646 from Surat Guajarat to Delhi (India), was climbing out of Surat's runway 04 when the right hand engine (PW1127G) ingested a bird and suffered vibrations (4.7 units). The aircraft levelled off at FL150 and diverted to Ahmedabad (India) where the aircraft landed safely on runway 23 about 35 minutes after departure.

A replacement A320-200 registration VT-IAN reached Delhi with a delay of about 3:15 hours.

A postflight inspection of the occurrence aircraft revealed a number of fan blades were damaged. The occurrence aircraft returned to service about 20.5 hours after landing in Ahmedabad.