San Francisco-Kolkata-Delhi Air India flight passengers’ ordeal ends as they reach via Mongolia
After a nearly two-day ordeal, 228 Air India passengers stranded in Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar finally reached Delhi at around 8:24am on Wednesday, following a diversion of their San Francisco-Delhi flight on Monday evening due to a “technical issue”.
The long journey home ended when Air India’s relief flight AI183, operated with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, ferried the passengers and crew back to India. The aircraft took off from Delhi on Tuesday afternoon and returned early Wednesday, bringing closure to a disruption that began almost 36 hours earlier.
