IndiGo's Mid-Air Scare, Safe Landing Decoded

A domestic flight from Delhi to Srinagar went through a chaotic situation on Wednesday, after the IndiGo aircraft encountered a violent hailstorm and severe turbulence, triggering multiple warnings, an 8,500-feet-per-minute descent, and a denied request for emergency passage through Pakistani airspace. New details indicate that the flight encountered a grave in-flight emergency after flying into an intense storm. These details, announced by the civil aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation, suggest that the pilots were fighting multiple cockpit warnings and instrument failures after entering a hailstorm. Vishnu Som decodes in today's The Last Word.