An Air India flight returned to Hong Kong on Monday shortly after takeoff due to a midair technical issue, days after another of the airline's flights crashed and killed at least 270 people.
Air India said in a statement that the New Delhi-bound plane landed in Hong Kong safely and was undergoing checks “as a matter of abundant precaution.” Airport Authority Hong Kong said in a separate statement that flight AI315 returned to the southern Chinese city’s airport around 1 p.m.
The plane was a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the same model as the London-bound flight that struck a medical college hostel in a residential area of the northwestern Indian city of Ahmedabad minutes after takeoff on Thursday. The crash killed 241 people on board and at least 29 on the ground. One passenger survived.
The flag carrier of India said alternative arrangements have been made to fly the affected passengers to their destination at the earliest convenience.
Associated Press video journalist Alice Fung in Hong Kong contributed to the report.
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BertieWooster
Boeing again! Anyone who still has shares in this luckless airline should sell them fast!
kaimycahl
@BertieWooster Warped logic how could you say Boeing again? In a illogical sense yes you can say Boeing because of the company name sake but without any facts if you knew anything about airplanes part part of the story you did not understand? The main reason why the plane returned was "An Air India flight returned to Hong Kong on Monday shortly after takeoff due to a midair technical issue". Planes do require maintenance. The plane has a flight log and has flown many hours and nothing happened. Duh!!!
Boeing again! Anyone who still has shares in this luckless airline should sell them fast!
Speed
I'd refrain from buying Boeing stocks at this time, too.
USNinJapan2
Boeing 787's have had an impeccable safety record for 14 years until an Air India B787 crashes, the first and only hull loss. Now a few days later there's another incident involving a B787 and of 1189 of them flying around the world it just so happens to be another Air India B787. And you immediately suspect the aircraft and its maker and not the airline and its maintenance? That's just dumb.
大窪Kahlua
USNinJapan2,
Thank goodness for your INTELLIGENT voice of logic.