{"id":651358,"date":"2025-11-05T09:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=651358"},"modified":"2025-11-05T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:16:07","slug":"air-india-delhi-bengaluru-flight-diverted-to-bhopal-after-midair-snag-second-incident-on-same-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-delhi-bengaluru-flight-diverted-to-bhopal-after-midair-snag-second-incident-on-same-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India Delhi\u2013Bengaluru flight diverted to Bhopal after midair snag, second incident on same day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: An Air India flight from Delhi to Bengaluru carrying 172 passengers was diverted to Bhopal on Monday evening following a suspected technical issue, the second such diversion involving the airline on the same day. <\/p>\n<p>Flight AI 2487, an A320 Neo aircraft, departed from Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International Airport at 6.47 pm but was diverted to Bhopal\u2019s Raja Bhoj Airport after a snag was detected midair. An emergency was declared around 7.30 pm to ensure a safe landing, and the aircraft touched down smoothly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: An Air India flight from Delhi to Bengaluru carrying 172 passengers was diverted to Bhopal on Monday evening following a suspected technical issue, the second such diversion involving the airline on the same day. Flight AI 2487, an A320 Neo aircraft, departed from Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International Airport at 6.47 pm but was diverted to Bhopal\u2019s Raja Bhoj Airport after a snag was detected midair. An emergency was declared around 7.30 pm to ensure a safe landing, and the aircraft touched down smoothly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}