An Air India Express flight, which took off from Calicut International Airport to Kuwait on Friday morning, made an emergency landing at the airport shortly after take off after a fire alarm went off in the cargo section of the aircraft, PTI reported.

Quoting Airport sources, PTI reported that the flight IX 393 with 15 passengers and six crew members took off at 8.40am and following the alarm the pilots made the emergency landing at 9.10am. All the passengers and crew onboard are safe and it was later found during inspection that it was a false alarm.

The passengers of the flight were accommodated in another flight from Mangaluru.

Currently, the employees of the Ministry of health and their immediate relatives, and other approved categories are only allowed to arrive Kuwait as a precautionary measure to prevent the spreading of Covid-19.