The passengers of an Air India flight had to strand for more than six hours after the carrier failed to get landing clearance in Bengaluru due to “bad weather” and thereafter had to deploy new set of pilots.
This took place in the wee hours of Thursday when a flight from Muscat scheduled to depart to Bengaluru at around 3.30 AM but couldn’t and was there till 10 AM in the Hyderabad International Airport. At last, the flight took off at around 10 AM.
“Because of bad weather in Bengaluru, we did not get clearance”, an Air India official said. In the meanwhile, after getting the clearance, the two pilots came under “Duty Time Limitations” which means they cannot fly after certain number of hours on duty.
So, we had to get another set of pilots”, the official said. The flight finally took off at around 10 am. There were a total of 153 passengers, while ten are from Muscat, 143 are from Hyderabad. Air India officials are looking into the matter.
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