Passengers from bird-hit Air India plane leave for Delhi via another flight
The passengers who were stranded here a day ago after a Delhi-bound Air India plane was forced to land at the Kannur International Airport due to a bird hit, finally left for the national capital on Tuesday aboard another aircraft of the airline.
The flight with 135 passengers had originated from Kozhikode and landed in the Kannur airport before flying to Delhi.
“A Delhi-bound Air India flight from Bengaluru was routed through Kannur to pick up the 61 stranded passengers,” the airport SHO told PTI.
They were sent on the flight from Bengaluru as the bird-hit aircraft was still undergoing fitness trials and the airline did not want to further delay the travel plans of the passengers, the officer said.
