Air India flight develop mechanical snag, another plane arranged for passengers

Chennai: An Air India Express flight scheduled to go to Kolkata from Chennai developed a technical snag which was detected by the pilot during the take off on Wednesday night.

The passengers were made to wait at the airport and provided all the facilities till Thursday morning when they were sent in another plane.

The flight began its take off roll at 10.15 pm on Wednesday with 180 passengers and 7 crew members.

The pilot identified a technical snag and halted the plane.

The engineers started inspection of the flight and continued to rectify the mistakes.

Since it could not be fully restored, the passengers were sent in another plane on Thursday.