Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner hit with another trouble as a flight to Delhi was forced to turn back after a technical issue mid-air.
According to Independent, days after a deadly plane crash in Ahmedabad, another Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was forced to turn back after the pilot reported a technical fault in midair.
As per the flight tracking website AirNav Radar, the Air India flight AI 315 took off from the airport at 11:59 am local time for New Delhi, but after reaching an altitude of 22,000 feet, it began descending.
However, the seven-year-old aircraft was landed safely back in Hong Kong around 3:20 pm local time.
Air India stated, “(AI315) returned to Hong Kong shortly after take-off due to a technical issue. The flight landed safely ... and is undergoing checks as a matter of abundant precaution.”
Air India Ahmedabad crash:
The mid-air technical fault in the Air India flight came days after a Boeing Dreamliner bound for Gatwick, London, with 242 people on board, struck a medical college hostel in a residential area of the northwestern city of Ahmedabad minutes after takeoff.
Only one passenger survived, while several other residents, along with passengers, were also killed in the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade. Last week the death toll from the crash hit 270.
