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An Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London was delayed by over three hours. Originally scheduled for departure at 11.40 am, the flight was rescheduled to take off at 3.00 pm.
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An Air India Ahmedabad to London flight was delayed by three hours on Wednesday.
According to the details, the flight was scheduled to takeoff for London from the Ahmedabad airport at 11.40 am today.
However, an update said the flight would now depart at 3.00 pm.
The reasons for the delay were not immediately known.
Air India has faced successive cancellations and diversions since a London-bound flight operated by it crashed in Ahmedabad shortly after take-off on June 12. Over 270 people, including those onboard the plane and on the ground, died in the crash.
On Tuesday, Air India flightsscheduled to depart for London from Ahmedabad and for Paris from Delhi, were cancelled due to technical issues.
However, Air India denied reports of the Ahmedabad to London flight being cancelled due to technical reasons, and said it was cancelled because of the unavailability of the aircraft, instead.
Earlier the same day, an Air India flight from San Francisco to Mumbai suffered a technical glitch in one of its engines.
All passengers on the flight were asked to deplane at the Kolkata airport, where the flight had arrived for a layover.
On Monday, another of the carrier’s flights was cancelled after facing delays caused by operational issues, eventually leading to the expiry of the crew’s duty time.
News agency ANI quoted sources and reported that Air India’s flight AI2493 from Mumbai to Ahmedabad was supposed to be operated by an Airbus A321-211 aircraft (VT-PPL).
On Monday, an Air India Express flight from Delhi to Ranchi was diverted back to the national capital shortly after taking off, due to a suspected technical issue.
Before that, an Air India flight returned to Hong Kong shortly after takeoff due to a midair technical issue.
Meanwhile, aviation watchdog DGCA on Tuesday said surveillance of Air India’s Boeing 787 fleet did not reveal any major safety concerns in the wake of the fatal plane crash in Ahmedabad last week.
Amid mounting safety concerns and the cancellation of at least 66 flights that were to be operated with Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, DGCA officials held a detailed review meeting with top Air India and Air India Express executives.
At the review meeting, the DGCA flagged concerns regarding recent maintenance-related issues reported at Air India.
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Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy News Editor at News18.com. She has nearly 10 years of experience in both national and international news and has previously worked on multiple desks.
Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy News Editor at News18.com. She has nearly 10 years of experience in both national and international news and has previously worked on multiple desks.
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