15-hour ordeal for passengers after emergency landing at Jaipur

Jaipur: The 185 passengers on the Dubai-bound Air India Express flight from Jaipur were in for a rude shock on Friday when their Boeing 737-800 was forced to make an emergency landing back at Jaipur airport just 45 minutes after take off due to a technical snag.
The flight, which departed Jaipur on Friday at 12.15pm had to return later at 1pm due to major technical snag detected by the pilots' mid-air. Later, the passengers were ferried in a special plane to Dubai at 10pm after they had been stranded for a full 15 hours.
The snag-hit Air India Express flight had initially arrived 7 hours late from its expected time of departure (5.40am) at 11.10am from Dubai. For the passengers inside the aircraft It was a harrowing time and the lack of the information left them seething. In the beginning they were left in a state of confusion bordering on panic when they heard the announcement 'tie your seat belts as the plane is landing in Jaipur'. To complicate the situation came another announcement: 'This landing is due to bad weather."
08/09/12 Shoeb Khan/Times of India

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