Air India flight returns after pilot alarmed of fault

Kolkata: An Air India Kolkata-Hyderabad flight with 31 passengers on board on Saturday made a "precautionary" landing at the NSC Bose
International airport here half an hour after take-off as the pilot was alerted by an alarm about technical fault in the aircraft.
The flight, IC-7217, which also had a four-member took from the airport at 5:15 pm but returned half an hour later after the alarm, airport sources said.
The pilot informed the Air Traffic Control and the aircraft was allowed to return and make a "precautionary" landing, one of the three categories of landing in aviation parlance.
The plane was taken to an isolation bay and the passengers disembarked.
The passengers were later accommodated in a Kolkata-Bangalore flight which took off at 6:15 pm.
15/08/09 PTI/Times of India

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