Shockingly today, early in the morning an Air India flight, AI-191 that had taken off from Mumbai and was headed to to Newark, was diverted to Kazakhstan due to a technical snag.
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“Due to some technical error, the flight had to make an emergency landing”.
The official said the flight, which took off from the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai around 2 a.m., was diverted to Kazakhstan where it landed safely at 7.30 a.m.
The airline official also told NDTV that “at times, perishable commodity in the cargo hold lead to such a situation when the alarm goes off”. Hence, a relief aircraft is being dispatched, the source said.
Air India’s Twitter handle said: #AI191 #Mumbai – #Newark has been diverted to #Kazakhstan due to operational reasons.
Jain has informed me that all passengers are safe.
Generally, Boeing 777-300 ER has a seating capacity of around 350 people. Aroob is the captain of the flight that was diverted to Kazakhstan.
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Reports coming now say the flight engineers are inspecting the aircraft.
