Mumbai-Ahmedabad AI flight delayed by 4 hours due to snag

Mumbai: An Ahmedabad-bound Air India flight from here, with 206 passengers onboard, took off after a delay of almost four hours due to snag.

The flight was scheduled to depart for its destination at 18:30 hours but a glitch in the aircraft kept it aground till around 10:20 hours.

The flight left for Ahmedabad at 10:25, an Air India spokesperson said tonight.

Air India flight AI 144 from the Chhtarpati Shivaji International Airport here departed for Ahmedabad at 10:25 hours as the aircraft had developed a snag, an airline’s spokesperson said in New Delhi.

Earlier, a person tweeted claiming that his sister and four-month-old baby were stranded and that the airline did not provide any information on the causes of the delay.

“@airindiain sis (sister) n (and) 4 month old baby traveling on AI-144 to amd (Ahmedabad) sitting on ground nearly 2 hours past std (scheduled time of departure) without much info from crew,” according to the tweet.

PTI