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Paris-bound Air France flight asks 26 passengers to voluntarily deplane after suffering a 'technical glitch'

Twenty-six passengers were asked to voluntarily deplane after a Paris-bound Air France flight suffered a 'technical problem' at the New Delhi airport in the wee hours of Wednesday.

|Jul 10, 2019, 12:39:57 IST

New Delhi: Twenty-six passengers were asked to voluntarily deplane after a Paris-bound Air France flight suffered a "technical problem" at the New Delhi airport in the wee hours of Wednesday.The pilot and crew of Air France AF225 told passengers that their checked-in luggage would be offloaded due to an unspecified technical glitch, urging them to disembark for the plane to take off.It is not known if the deboarded passengers were flown out on the next flight to Paris, as is commonly done in such cases.

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