Air India flight from Kochi to Delhi delays due to technical issue
The Passengers on board Air India flight from Kochi to Delhi faced an unexpected delay on Sunday after a technical snag was detected during the aircraft's take-off roll.
The Passengers on board Air India flight from Kochi to Delhi faced an unexpected delay on Sunday after a technical snag was detected during the aircraft's take-off roll.
An unruly passenger was handed over to airport security at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport following a mid-air altercation on an Air India flight from Amritsar to Delhi on Saturday, the airline said.
A Chennai-bound Air India flight was forced to return to Mumbai on Friday after a "burning smell" was detected in the cabin, the airline said on Saturday.
According to the flight tracking website Flightradar24, the aircraft took off from Birmingham at 8:26 pm and was en route to Delhi when it had to make the emergency diversion.
India just witnessed its worst aviation disaster in recent times. Shortly after takeoff, Air India Flight 171 crashed into the hostel block of a medical college in the Meghani Nagar neighbourhood of Ahmedabad in Gujarat on June 12.
The woman passenger was later given a steward's seat where she sat for the remaining journey of about 5 hours.
This is the first flight from the UK after the services were suspended between the two nations on December 23 over the new and more contagious strain of the virus.
The flight, with 130 passengers and 6 crew, took off at around 1.20 am and was diverted to Mumbai where it made a safe emergency landing around 5.40 a.m.
The airport authorities have started a probe into the freak accident while technicians in Mumbai are examining the damaged aircraft.
Indrani Ghosh, daughter of the woman passenger, took to Twitter and narrated the incident saying her mother had to face extreme shock and trauma.
