Air India Terminates San Francisco–Mumbai Flight In Kolkata After Engine Snag

Kolkata: Due to technical snag in flight, a Mumbai bound San Francisco flight was halted in Kolkata at wee hours of Tuesday.

All the passengers were taken out at 0520 hours on Tuesday at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose airport.

VIDEO | Kolkata: An Air India flight from San Francisco to Mumbai via Kolkata suffered a technical snag in one of its engines, requiring passengers to be deplaned during a scheduled halt at the city airport early on Tuesday.

Flight AI180 arrived on time at the city airport at… pic.twitter.com/0MSUiiwPdZ
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Notably, despite arriving on time, the flight take off was delayed at San Francisco airport due to some error in its left engine.

This incident happened five days after the London Gatwick-bound Air India Boeing Dreamliner 787-8 crash at Ahmedabad airport on June 12 that took away 141 lives and only one passenger is surviving.

Air India Terminates San Francisco–Mumbai Flight In Kolkata After Engine Snag

The Tata Group-owned carrier, which lost one of its aircraft in Ahmedabad, leading to the deaths of over 270 people earlier this month, did not issue any official statement on the Kolkata issue.

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