Air India flight makes emergency landing after technical snag

Mangaluru - Air India made an emergency landing at Mangaluru airport.

A Kochi-bound Air India flight from Mumbai with 58 passengers and crew on board made an emergency landing at the airport on Tuesday due to a technical snag.
"The Air India flight coming from Mumbai and heading towards Kochi made an emergency landing at 7.50 PM at Mangaluru airport due to a technical snag," an airport official said.
He, however, declined to give details of the nature of the snag.
The official said the airlines engineers were looking into the issue and that the passengers would be flown to their onward destinations later tonight or tomorrow, depending on the time taken to rectify the problem.

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