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An Air India flight returned to Hong Kong on Monday shortly after takeoff due to a midair ‘technical issue.’
“The pilots of the Air India flight to Delhi that returned to Hong Kong after nearly 90 minutes of take-off didn’t want to continue their journey after a suspected technical glitch was detected in the aircraft. The flight took-off for Delhi on Monday morning,” India Today noted.
“An audio of the pilot’s conversation with the Air Traffic Control has emerged where they are heard saying that they don’t want to continue and return to the airport,” it added.
The pilots of the Air India flight to Delhi that returned to Hong Kong after nearly 90 minutes of take-off didn’t want to continue their journey after a suspected technical glitch was detected in the aircraft. The flight took-off for Delhi on Monday morning
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The incident follows the horrific Air India crash that killed at least 270 people.
CBS News reports:
The plane that turned around on Monday was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, as was the Air India flight that crashed into buildings in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday morning.
Air India said in a statement that the New Delhi-bound plane landed back in Hong Kong safely Monday and was undergoing checks “as a matter of abundant precaution.”
Airport Authority Hong Kong said in a separate statement that flight AI315 returned to the southern Chinese city’s airport around 1 p.m.
Flight AI315 was a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, as was AI171, the Air India flight that struck a medical college hostel in Ahmedabad just minutes after it took off from the city’s airport on Thursday. The crash killed 241 people on board the plane and at least 29 on the ground. One passenger, a British national, survived.
Air India, the nation’s flag carrier airline, said alternative arrangements were made to fly the affected passengers from the Hong Kong to New Delhi flight to their destination at the earliest convenience.
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Air India 315 from Hong Kong to Delhi diverted back to Hong Kong after takeoff on Monday.
The plane departed 3hrs and 26 minutes delayed, then returned to Hong Kong roughly an hour after takeoff. The flight was on a 7 year old Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. pic.twitter.com/kTNvlcfMFV
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The passenger jet – the same type as the aircraft involved in last week’s tragedy – was bound for New Delhi but landed back in Hong Kong about an hour after take-off.
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Per Fox Business:
Flight AI315 took off from Hong Kong around 12:20 p.m., reached an altitude of 22,000 feet and started descending, according to flight tracking website AirNav Radar. The plane is seven years old, Reuters reports.
One of the pilots told air traffic controllers about 15 minutes after takeoff that “for technical reasons, sir, we would like to stay closer to Hong Kong, maybe we will come back and land back into Hong Kong once we sort out the problem,” according to recordings from air traffic control monitoring website LiveATC.net reviewed by Reuters.
“We don’t want to continue further,” the pilot said, before returning.
Air India’s Chairman N. Chandrasekaran on Monday told staff that last week’s plane crash should be a catalyst to build a safer airline, urging employees to stay resolute amid any criticism.
There was only one survivor from Thursday’s Boeing 787-8 crash that happened shortly after take-off from the Indian city of Ahmedabad. The plane had been bound for London Gatwick Airport.
Viswashkumar Ramesh, the lone survivor, described his survival as a “miracle” while speaking to DD India.