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Row over flight cancellation

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NEDUMBASSERY: Chaos prevailed at the Cochin International Airport here on Tuesday after the passengers of an Air Deccan flight, which was cancelled on Monday evening, confronted the airline authorities with the demand of being given preference in the airline's first flight on Tuesday.

The row started on Monday night after flight DN 210 bound for Bangalore got grounded in Kochi airport owing to a technical snag. While a handful of passengers left the airport after taking extension of their tickets, majority of them got stranded at the airport till the morning.

On Tuesday, the situation got tense again when the stranded passengers threatened to block the passengers of the airline's morning flightunless they were accommodated in it. Finally, it was decided that most of the stranded passengers would be accommodated in the morning flight.

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