Mumbai: More than 70 passengers on an Air India (AI) flight from Muscat to Chennai were stranded inside the aircraft after the flight made an unscheduled landing at Mumbai airport on Monday morning. The flight duty time limit (FDTL) of the flight crew had expired and the airline landed in Mumbai to change crew.
The flight duty time limit is the designated time a crew can operate a flight free of fatigue. After those designated hours expire, it is mandatory for the crew to take rest before they operate another flight. The FDTL is about eight hours for short-haul flights.
The passengers had to wait for three hours before the flight eventually took off.
23/04/13 Times of India
