Three Air India Express flights hit by snags in three days
Plane with 170 passengers that took off from Kochi for Sharjah returns in latest incident
Kochi: Another Air India Express flight was reported to have developed a snag on Wednesday night after two such incidents in three days.
The flight with 170 passengers on board took off from Kerala’s Kochi airport for Sharjah but returned after 45 minutes.
The flight left Kochi airport around 10.30pm and returned soon after. The passengers were put on other flights bound for Sharjah.
On Monday just before noon, Bahrain-bound Air India Express flight aborted its take off from Thiruvananthapuram airport.
The same day, an Air India Express flight that left Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu and was headed for Sharjah landed at the Thiruvananthapuram airport here following a technical snag.
Air India Express flies from three airports in Kerala — Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode — to various Middle East destinations.