Flight headed to Jodhpur lands in Jaipur, passengers enraged

Jaipur: Nearly a hundred passengers travelling in a Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Jodhpur were stranded for almost two hours when the aircraft landed in Jaipur without any intimation to the passengers. Later, 70% of the passengers were sent to Jodhpur via road. Passengers included a man who was carrying the dead body of his wife.
The Jet Airways flight that took off from Mumbai at 11 am on Wednesday for Jodhpur landed here at 3.30 pm. The passengers were not informed by the airline about the unscheduled landing.
Shashi Shekhar, who was taking his wife's body from Dubai to Jodhpur and was the most annoyed of all.
Sources cited no clearance by Jodhpur to land the flight as the reason.
29/12/11 Times of India

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