Pune: Around 100 passengers set to fly from Delhi to Pune on an Air India flight late night on Tuesday sat inside a stalled aircraft amid the sweltering heat, deboarded and boarded again, before sitting cooped up for long yet again until the aircraft finally started to taxi three hours later.
The flight (AI-2609) was to take off from the national capital at 11.50pm and land in Pune at 2.05am on Wednesday. Additionally, the cabin crew provided little to no information adding to the frustration and stress of the passengers.
Wakad resident Rohit Raj, who was on the flight, said there was an initial delay and the boarding was complete by 11.40pm. "The
pilots entered the cockpit around 11.50pm and then one of them left to check the aircraft. Around 45 minutes later, one of the pilots announced there was a technical problem and also food for passengers had gone bad due to the heat. We kept sitting in the heat as the AC wasn't working properly. Soon many flyers lost their cool on the overall inconvenience," he said.
Raj said all passengers were deboarded around 12.55am and taken to the terminal building. Around 2am the boarding started again. The same was completed by 2.30am and we thought that the
flight would take off. Fortunately, this time, the air conditioning was working fine," he added.
Around 3.15am, the aircraft finally took off. We landed in Pune around 5am," Raj told TOI.
30/04/2026 Joy Sengupta/Times of India
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