After being grounded for 32 hours, AI plane takes off from Gaya for Yangon

GAYA: After remaining grounded at the Gaya International Airport for about 32 hours, the Yangon-bound Air India flight took off with 89 passengers on board. The plane was grounded following the detection of a major snag that could not be locally repaired. The snag was detected shortly before the scheduled take-off on Tuesday morning.

As the defect could not be locally rectified, an eight-member aviation engineering team flew in from Delhi in the afternoon on Tuesday.

Several passengers were upset with the long wait and the plane's failure to take off at the scheduled time. The passengers, most of them foreign tourists and pilgrims were accommodated in a Bodh Gaya hotel.

AI station manager Sanjay Singh confirmed the flight worthiness of the plane after the snag was fixed.

The Delhi-Gaya-Yangon flight of Air India had landed at the Gaya airport at 8.40 on Tuesday morning. It was scheduled to take off at 9.20 the same morning. Confirming the plane's take-off, Gaya airport director SK Biswas said that the Yangon bound plane took off at 4.20pm on Wednesday.

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