Bengaluru/Chennai: About 150 passengers on board an Air India flight from Hyderabad to Chennai, which was diverted to Bengaluru, had a harrowing time as the flight could not take off from the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA)?here for over two hours.
The flight AI-546 that took off from Hyderabad at 7.10 pm was diverted to Bengaluru following some landing problems at the Chennai airport. The flight landed at KIA here round 9 pm. According to Vijay Kumar of Hyderabad, a passenger on board the AI-546, the Air India officials did not provide them any updates on when the flight would take off.
“For nearly two hours we were sitting in the aircraft anxiously waiting for information from officials. But we were kept in the dark. Even if the flight takes off now, we may reach Chennai only past midnight. The scheduled landing at Chennai was 8 pm,” Kumar told Deccan Herald around 11 pm.
Kumar said that they were not even provided refreshments though the flight was delayed by a few hours. It is said that for almost one hour re-fuelling did not take place, he claimed.
04/09/15 Deccan Herald
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The flight AI-546 that took off from Hyderabad at 7.10 pm was diverted to Bengaluru following some landing problems at the Chennai airport. The flight landed at KIA here round 9 pm. According to Vijay Kumar of Hyderabad, a passenger on board the AI-546, the Air India officials did not provide them any updates on when the flight would take off.
“For nearly two hours we were sitting in the aircraft anxiously waiting for information from officials. But we were kept in the dark. Even if the flight takes off now, we may reach Chennai only past midnight. The scheduled landing at Chennai was 8 pm,” Kumar told Deccan Herald around 11 pm.
Kumar said that they were not even provided refreshments though the flight was delayed by a few hours. It is said that for almost one hour re-fuelling did not take place, he claimed.
04/09/15 Deccan Herald
