Five-hour delay for passengers after flight suffers tyre burst

Tiruchirapalli: Passengers waiting to board an Air India Express flight on the Dubai-Tiruchirapalli-Chennai Singapore sector on Friday night suffered a five hour delay in their onward journey following a tyre burst in the aircraft, airport sources said
The flight, which landed at 2330 hours here on Friday night, was scheduled to leave at 0030 hours on Saturday morning. The puncture was noticed while the aircraft was in the parking bay.
Eightysix of the 126 passengers waiting to board the flight left for Singapore at 0430 hours in another aircraft, which flew in from Chennai, they said.
The Air India flight was towed to the hangar here later, they said.
26/04/08 Chennai Online

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