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Mumbai-Ahmedabad Air India flight delayed for four hours due to a snag

An Ahmedabad-bound Air India flight from Mumbai, with 206 passengers onboard, took off after a delay of almost four hours due to snag.

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|Jun 20, 2016, 09:12:29 IST
Mumbai: An Ahmedabad-bound Air India flight from Mumbai, with 206 passengers onboard, took off after a delay of almost four hours due to snag.[caption id="attachment_2661462" align="alignleft" width="380"]Representational image. Reuters

Representational image. Reuters[/caption]The flight was scheduled to depart for its destination at 6.30 pm but a glitch in the aircraft kept it aground till around 10.20 pm.The flight left for Ahmedabad at 10.25 pm, an Air India spokesperson said on Sunday night.Air India flight AI 144 from the Chhtarpati Shivaji International Airport here departed for Ahmedabad at 10:25 pm as the aircraft had developed a snag, an airline's spokesperson said in New Delhi.Earlier, a person tweeted claiming that his sister and four-month-old baby were stranded and that the airline did not provide any information on the causes of the delay."@airindiain sis (sister) n (and) 4 month old baby traveling on AI-144 to amd (Ahmedabad) sitting on ground nearly 2 hours past std (scheduled time of departure) without much info from crew," according to the tweet.

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First Published:Jun 20, 2016, 09:12:29 IST
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