Srinagar, May 22 -- A Srinagar-bound Indigo flight from Delhi with more than 200 people on board hit turbulence on Wednesday due to inclement weather, prompting the pilot to report the "emergency" to air traffic control at Srinagar. The flight later landed safely here, officials said. "Indigo flight en route Delhi to Srinagar experienced bad weather (hailstorm), emergency reported by pilot to Srinagar air control," an official of the Airports Authority of India said. He said the flight landed safely at Srinagar at 6.30 pm. "All aircrew and 227 passengers are safe and flight is declared AOG by airline," he added. 'Aircraft on ground' (AOG) refers to a plane that is grounded and unable to fly due to technical issues. Videos of the moments of turbulence shared on social media showed panic-stricken passengers could be heard making religious supplications as the plane swayed. Some passengers claimed that the nose of the plane was damaged but there was no official word on it. "I was in the plane and am heading back home from Srinagar. It was a near death experience.The nose of the plane is damaged...There was panic and people were screaming. Everyone was scared," one Owais Maqbool, who was on board the flight, said in a post on microblogging platform X. "The Nose and Right side of the plane was damaged... And we were not allowed to see much as airforce police was there," another passenger Hakeem said in a post. A Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation, which included Derek O'Brien, Sagarika Ghose, Nadimul Haque, Mamata Thakur and Manas Bhuyan, was on board the plane, Ghose said. According to IndiGo, the airport team attended to the customers after arrival of the aircraft, prioritising their well-being and comfort. "The aircraft will be released post necessary inspection and maintenance," it added....