An Air India flight carrying over 300 people from Mumbai to Newark was yesterday diverted to Kazakhstan after detection of fumes in the cargo hold that triggered a fire alarm
An Air India flight carrying over 300 people from Mumbai to Newark was yesterday diverted to Kazakhstan after detection of fumes in the cargo hold that triggered a fire alarm.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said all passengers are safe and that there was no reason for worry while a relief aircraft is already on the way from New Delhi to ferry the stranded passengers to Newark.
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The Boeing 777-300 ER plane had landed at the Aktobe international airport in Kazakhstan at around 8 am, hours after “some alarm went off” while it was on its way to Newark.
An airline source said that fire alarm was set off after fumes were detected from the cargo hold of the plane and that the engineers are inspecting the flight.