A London-bound Air India aircraft from Ahmedabad had to be escorted by fighter jets on Friday after it lost contact with the Air Traffic Control while flying over Hungary.
The Dreamliner Boeing 787-800 with 231 passengers and 18 crew members lost contact with the ATC due to “frequency fluctuation”, an AI spokesperson said.
The aircraft, which took off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai International Airport in Ahmedabad at 7 a.m., landed safely at London’s Heathrow Airport at 11.05 a.m. local time, the spokesperson said.
This is the second such incident in one month. On February 16, Jet Airways flight 9W-118 from Mumbai lost communication with the Germany’s ATC on its way to London.
