Air India: The Air India flight coming from San Francisco to Mumbai developed a problem, passengers were disembarked in Kolkata

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.

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Air India Dreamliner plane coming to Delhi had developed a fault.

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On Sunday, the flight coming from London to Chennai also had a problem.

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Lufthansa flight had to take a U-turn and return to Frankfurt Airport.

A Lufthansa flight coming to Hyderabad also had to take a U-turn and land back at Frankfurt Airport on Sunday evening. Flight LH752 had departed from Germany. It was to land at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad on Monday morning. Lufthansa Airlines had told news agency ANI that we did not get permission to land in Hyderabad. That is why the plane took a U-turn and returned.

An email with a bomb threat was received.

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Smoke was seen coming out of the wheels of a Saudi plane in Lucknow.

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