An Air India flight from San Francisco to Mumbai developed a technical fault in one of its engines. Due to this, passengers had to disembark during the scheduled stop of the plane at Kolkata airport on Tuesday. Flight AI180 arrived at the airport on time at 0045, but the flight was delayed due to a technical fault in the left engine. At around 0520, all the passengers were asked to disembark from the plane. The captain of the plane told the passengers that this decision was taken given flight safety.
What is the matter?
Air India flight AI180 departed from San Francisco airport as scheduled. However, on reaching Kolkata airport at 12:45 am, its left engine developed a technical fault. More than four hours later, at 5:20 am, I was told that all the passengers would have to disembark from the plane.
Fear prevails after the Ahmedabad accident.
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