Air India calls back flight to carry passenger

An Air India flight for Nagpur was called back to Mumbai, when it had gone half way, to accommodate a passenger, who was travelling to Nagpur to attend his ailing wife but missed it due to a goof-up at the Mumbai Airport on Friday .The flight was called back purely on humanitarian grounds as the passenger's wife was in a 'serious condition' and the flight was the last one in the day, an Air India official said. “We called back the flight, IC 629, only on humanitarian grounds as the passenger told our staff that his wife was seriously ill and it was important for him to reach Nagpur," the official said.
The passenger, whose identity has not been revealed, missed the flight after he mistakenly boarded the bus at the airport, meant for Ahmedabad flight. "When he reached the aircraft and displayed his boarding pass, staff told him it was for Nagpur flight and which had already left," the official said.
The flight which had originally taken off from Mumbai Airport at around 7 PM, left at 8.40 PM after picking up the passenger.
22/11/08 Times Now.tv

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