Air India Express Hyderabad–Phuket flight suffers nose-wheel damage after hard landing, Phuket airport runway shut

An Air India Express flight operating from Hyderabad to Phuket suffered damage to its nose wheel after making a hard landing at Phuket International Airport in Thailand on Wednesday March 11, 2026).

According to data from flight tracking platform FlightRadar24, Air India Express flight IX 938, operated using a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, departed from Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) at 6.42 a.m. and landed in Phuket at 11.24 a.m.