Air India: air india flight coming from san francisco to mumbai developed a fault, passengers disembarked in Kolkata
Air India flight coming from san francisco to mumbai via Kolkata developed a technical fault on tuesday morning. Due to this, the passengers had to disembark from the plane at Netaji Subhash chandra bose International airport during its scheduled stopover in Kolkata. The flight's left engine had a technical fault, due to which the flight from kolkata to Mumbai was delayed.
An air india flight going from san francisco to mumbai developed a technical fault in one of its engines. Due to this, the passengers had to disembark from the plane during its scheduled stopover at kolkata airport on Tuesday. Flight AI180 arrived at the airport on time at 0045 hrs, but the flight was delayed due to a technical fault in the left engine. At around 0520 hrs, all the passengers were asked to disembark from the plane. The captain of the plane told the passengers that this decision was taken in view of flight safety.
Air india flight AI180 departed from san francisco airport as per schedule. However, it developed a technical fault in its left engine when it reached Kolkata airport at 12:45 am. More than four hours later, at 5:20 am, I was told that all the passengers would have to deboard the plane.
The incident took place five days ago after air india flight AI-171, flying from Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai international Airport to London's Gatwick airport, collided with the hostel building of BJ Medical college seconds after takeoff. The crashed air india plane had 242 people on board, including 230 passengers, 10 cabin crew members, and two pilots. All except british citizen vishwas Kumar Ramesh died.
Air india Dreamliner plane coming to delhi had developed a fault.
Earlier yesterday, air india flight AI315 from hong kong to delhi had to return to its origin after technical problems were suspected mid-flight. This flight AI315 operated by Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner had departed from Hong Kong to Delhi. Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft is being used by air india in India.
On sunday, the flight coming from london to chennai also had a problem.
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