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Snag forces plane to return to Delhi

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A Toronto-bound Air India flight AI-187 returned to Delhi on Saturday after it developed a technical snag.

According to a senior Air India official, the pilot noticed a technical snag while touching down at Amritsar airport and decided to return to Delhi.

The aircraft had left Mumbai for Toronto in the morning. All passengers were disembarked at Amritsar and the aircraft returned to Delhi where it made an emergency landing at 4-30 p.m.

The official said that some spare-parts were being flown in from Mumbai to repair the aircraft. He said adequate arrangements had been made for the passengers stranded at Amritsar.

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