Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (ANK)

Mangaluru Apr 3: An Air India flight which was supposed to take off from Mangaluru International Airport to Mumbai was cancelled by carrier officials stating the reasons of technical problem and unavailability of pilot.

The Incident occurred on Tuesday April 2.

Many passengers registered displeasure over the decision taken by the officials. Some passengers had to take other airlines to reach their destinations.

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The scheduled Air India flight to Mumbai was supposed to take off from Mangaluru International Airport at 12:40 pm. But the officials stated technical reason for the delay and postponed the take off time twice. In the end, the officials gave another reason of unavailability of pilot and cancelled the flight.

First the officials said that spare parts of the aircraft will arrive from Mumbai through Jet Airways around 3 pm. Later they said that spare parts will arrive at 5 pm by Indigo flight. But the flight was cancelled before the spare parts did reach Mangaluru airport.

Later the arrangements were made for the passengers to reach Mumbai in later flights.