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London: More than 300 passengers of a Mumbai-bound Air India flight have been stranded here for three days after the Boeing 747-400 was grounded at the Heathrow airport following a bird-hit.

The New York-London-New Delhi-Mumbai flight with 434 passengers returned to Heathrow within 20 minutes of taking off on Thursday night following what officials said was a "technical fault" that forced the pilot to dump fuel before landing.

An Air India spokesperson in Mumbai told PTI on Saturday that 96 passengers were flown by a relief aircraft to New Delhi via Ahmedabad. "The remaining 338 have been accommodated in various hotels near the Heathrow airport," the spokesperson said. — PTI

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