A Raipur-Mumbai flight of Jet Airways was delayed for over 6 hours on Sunday due to a technical snag at the Swami Vivekananda Airport here.According to sources in the Swami Vivekananda Airport, the Jet Airways flight that was scheduled to take off at 3.10 pm was grounded after it developed some technical snag.
The passengers had to face inconvenience due to delay in flight which was rescheduled at 9:30 pm.
Incidentally, a special flight arranged by the Bangladesh Government landed at Raipur airport on Saturday late evening and took off for Dhaka with 173 passengers and crew members who spent over 24 hours at airport lounge after the flight in which they were travelling in had landed at Raipur in extreme emergency situation.
The flight was en route from Dhaka to Muscat was allowed to land at Raipur airport on Friday evening after it developed serious technical snag.
The passengers heaved a major sigh of relief when the special plane reached Raipur as they spent about 24 hours in extreme mental stress and uncertainty about their next course of journey.