A Patna-bound Air India flight carrying 152 passengers, including RJD chief lalu Prasad Yadav and BJP MP RK Singh, from the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) on Saturday returned after being air-borne due to a malfunctioning in the aircraft’s air-conditioning system.
The snag-hit plane, an Airbus A320, was grounded and Air India had to deploy another aircraft to fly the stranded passengers to their destination.
According to sources, Air India flight AI-415 departed at its scheduled time at 6.40 pm last evening but returned to IGIA as the aircraft’s air-conditioning system had stopped working mid-way, it said.
The airline was replaced the plane, causing an over four-hour delay, the source added.