An Air India flight from the national capital to Kolkata was aborted after its cockpit crew detected a technical issue. The impacted flight—AI2403–was returned safely to the bay and all its passengers safely disembarked with help from the ground staff.
The cockpit crew decided to discontinue the takeoff in tandem with standard operating procedures, an Air India spokesperson said.
“All passengers have disembarked and our ground colleagues in Delhi are extending support to them,” said the Tata group airline’s spokesperson.
The airline rescheduled the flight to depart later on Monday.
Flight rescheduled same day post-safe return
Expressing regret over the disruption, the private sector airline assured that passenger safety remains its top priority, stating: “At Air India, the safety and wellbeing of our passengers remain top priority.”
The incident comes less than six weeks of the tragic crash of a London-bound Air India flight—flight AI171–from Ahmedabad moments after takeoff. Only one passenger survived that horrific plane crash, which also caused several deaths on ground as the long-haul flight rammed into a building.
The investigation into the Ahmedabad Air India plane crash will look at facts and stand by the truth, which would only be known once the final report is out, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said in Parliament earlier on Monday.
“The way we are seeing the investigation is through facts. We want to stand by the truth, not what is happening with the pilots, or Boeing, or Air India. We want to find out what exactly happened, which will only be known when the final report is placed,” said Naidu said in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Parliament.
Flight AI171 Ahmedabad crash probe under scrutiny in Parliament
His remarks came on the first day of the Monsoon Session of Parliament amid growing concerns over the alleged delay in decoding the black box data.
Meanwhile, a preliminary report into the tragic crash, made public earlier this month, had stated that a kit from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was brought to the national capital 11 days after the crash, on June 23. This kit was then used for extracting data.
