Srinagar, May 22 -- A Srinagar-bound Indigo flight from Delhi with more than 220 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. Passengers narrated a scary experience. "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 micro-blogging 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," Hakeem claimed in another post....