However, the pilot managed to bring the aircraft to the apron with the single nose wheel, airport sources said.

All the 70 passengers and five crew members were safe, sources said.

Sources added that one of the nose wheels got cut off after the aircraft landed at around 3.20 p.m. The aircraft was grounded and its onward journey to Hyderabad had to be cancelled.

Airline sources said that efforts were on to make alternative arrangement for the passengers.

(thehindu.com)