Bengaluru bound Air-India flight on Sunday did not take off allegedly due to a technical snag. As many as 72 passengers were stuck at Visakhapatnam airport for almost 10 hours.
According to sources, Bengaluru bound Air India flight (AI-9539) via Vijayawada was to take off from Visakhapatnam airport at around 7.45 a.m. on Sunday.
After passengers boarded the flight, the pilot noticing some technical snag did not take off and asked passengers to disembark.
After around one hour, the passengers were again asked to board the flight for the second time, and again the captain refused to take off expressing safety concern due to the same problem.
The irked passengers expressed anger and urged the management to arrange alternate flights to Vijayawada and Bengaluru.
Sources added that at around 12.30 p.m. the airlines authorities arranged a flight for Bengaluru passengers and at around 6.30 p.m. the management arranged a flight for Vijayawada passengers.
