The film is based on true events, in which a plane from Doha to Kochi landed with only a very small amount of fuel left.
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Indian Aviation News notes that a mayday call was made amid the chaos. According to the Hindustan Times, the flight's captain couldn't see the runway on the final attempt, and had to resort to going blindly. The incident was ultimately classified as serious, with the captain being demoted as a result.
According to Indian media, the Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation report gives details of conversation in the cockpit of the Doha-Kochi flight as the pilots of 9W-555 made six futile attempts to land in bad weather, before landing blindly at the seventh attempt.
It began when Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt severed their bilateral relations with Qatar and subsequently banned Qatar-registered aircraft and Qatari ships from utilizing their sovereign territory by air, land, and sea; this involved the Saudis' closure of Qatar's only land crossing, ...