A Chennai bound Jet Airways flight from Mumbai aborted take off at the Mumbai airport due to technical glitch as a result of which fifteen Jet passengers were injured.

Passengers on board were in for a shock after a fire alarm went off shortly before the plane took off. The alarm triggered a minor stampede as passengers rushed to evacuate. But now the airline says it was a false alarm.

The passengers who were heading for Chennai ended up landing in a hospital instead. Around 15 of them sustained minor injuries after being evacuated out of Jet Airways flight 2302 at the Mumbai domestic airport. An inquiry has been ordered in to the incident by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

The incident occurred immediately after the pilot ordered an emergency evacuation after a fire alarm went off, indicating the left-hand side engine of the Boeing 737 twin engine had caught fire. But Jet Airways in a statement said the fire was a false alarm.

In the scuffle that followed to exit the aircraft from all four exits of the airplane, passengers jumped out of the safety chutes tumbling over each other and in the process sustained minor injuries.