Amid much chaos and confusion on the evacuation of Indians from Ukraine, the first Air India special chartered flight (AIC 1944) carrying 219 passengers from Romanian capital Bucharest, landed at Mumbai airport at 7.50 pm on Saturday. This is the first flight from Ukraine back home after the Russian invasion. It was earlier scheduled to land in Mumbai at 4 pm.
The second evacuation flight AIC 1942 with 250 passengers and third evacuation flight AIC 1940 are expected to return from Bucharest and Budapest, respectively, to the Delhi airport on Sunday morning.
According to Air Traffic Control of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), Boeing 787 aircraft, the Air India chartered flight landed at the Mumbai airport at 7.50 pm.