An Air India flight from San Francisco to Mumbai suffered a technical snag in one of its engines due to which passengers had to be deplaned during a scheduled halt at the city's airport early on Tuesday, 17 June.
Flight AI180 arrived on time at 0045 hrs at the airport but the technical snag in the left engine resulted in the take off getting delayed.
At about 0520 hrs, an announcement was made in the aircraft asking all the passengers to deplane.
The decision was made in interest of flight safety, the captain of the plane told the passengers.
As the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft remained in the spotlight since the crash last Thursday, technical snags and a bomb threat resulted in at least four of these wide-body twin-engine aircraft returning to origin after takeoff in the last 36 hours. The planes bound for Delhi from Hong Kong, for Chennai from London, for Hyderabad from Frankfurt and for Mumbai from San Francisco were operated by the Tata-owned airline, British Airways and German airline Lufthansa respectively.
Tata Sons and Air India chairman N. Chandrasekaran on Monday told the airline staff to use the plane crash in Ahmedabad as an "act of force" to build a "safer airline", as a high-level government panel held its first meeting to probe the possible causes of the air disaster.
Addressing close to 700 employees and the leadership team across the Air India headquarters and Air India Training Academy in Gurugram, Chandrasekaran urged them to stay on course, terming the accident the most "heartbreaking" crisis of his career.
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