It is no secret that a plane is a complicated machine. Therefore, it is no surprise that ever so often, there comes to light some kinds of glitches in certain planes. More often than not, the glitches aren’t particularly major but they do end up causing minor inconveniences to people. Recently, an Air India flight had to return to the airport it took off from. Thankfully, it wasn’t a huge issue and was resolved quickly.
Trivandrum-Dubai Air India Flight Returns To Airport
An Air India flight was recently forced to land back at the airport from where it took off barely a couple of hours earlier. This happened on a flight headed to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates or the UAE from Trivandrum, the state capital of Kerala.
The incident took place on the 23rd of July, Sunday in the afternoon. The flight took off at 1:19 pm. However, instead of going to Dubai, as it was scheduled, it landed back at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport.
According to an article recently published by India Today, it was because this particular plane had some technical problems with its air conditioning system. The flight was numbered IX-539 and it managed to safely land back at the airport around 3:52 PM.
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Passengers Fine; Alternate Aircraft Arranged
A spokesperson from Air India is quoted in the article saying that an alternative aircraft was quickly arranged for passengers. There were a total of 178 people onboard including the airline crew and all of them were smoothly transported to the new aircraft.
The flight then departed for Dubai around 6 o’clock in the evening. The article also said that it would arrive in Dubai around 10:45 PM, Gulf Standard Time. Glitches and incidents in flights are common news these days.
Recently, in one of the more bizarre incidents, a lady threw a fit on a flight and deboarded it because she claimed that a passenger sitting in the back was not real.
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