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This Article is From Jan 07, 2014

Varanasi: Air India plane, bound for Delhi, makes emergency landing

Varanasi: A Delhi-bound Air India plane with 135 passengers on board was forced to make an emergency landing at an airport in Varanasi today due to a technical snag, about 15 minutes after it took off.

The Air India plane took off at 4:40 PM from Varanasi's Lal Bahadur Shashtri International airport for New Delhi, but just after 15 minutes of flying, it had to land back again at the airport due to detection of a technical snag in the aircraft by its pilot, said airport manager K P Singh.

The technical fault of the aircraft was rectified by the engineers and the plane took off at 6 PM, said Mr Singh.

The plane was going from Gaya to New Delhi via Varanasi.

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