Kolkata: An Air India flight from San Francisco to Mumbai suffered a technical snag in one of its engines, due to which passengers had to be deplaned during a scheduled halt at the Kolkata airport early on Tuesday.
Flight AI180 arrived on time at 12.45 am at the airport, but a technical snag in the left engine of the Boeing 777-300 aircraft resulted in the takeoff getting delayed, officials said.
“When it was finally realised that the technical snag could not be rectified immediately, special permission was taken from the authorities concerned, and then all passengers on board were disembarked,” an Air India official said.
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