Air India Airbus A320neo Plane

An Airbus A320neo plane of Tata Group-run Air India returned to Mumbai airport just 27 minutes after take off as one of its engines shut down mid-air due to a technical issue, sources said today.

The aviation regulator DGCA will order a probe into a "lapse" after an empty Air India plane flying from Delhi to Moscow returned midway when the pilot was found infected with coronavirus. The state-run carrier's ground team realised the pilot was a COVID-19 patient only after the Airbus A320NEO had taken off.

An Airbus A320neo plane of Tata Group-run Air India returned to Mumbai airport just 27 minutes after take off as one of its engines shut down mid-air due to a technical issue, sources said today.

The aviation regulator DGCA will order a probe into a "lapse" after an empty Air India plane flying from Delhi to Moscow returned midway when the pilot was found infected with coronavirus. The state-run carrier's ground team realised the pilot was a COVID-19 patient only after the Airbus A320NEO had taken off.