Air India flight suffers technical snag

An Air India flight from San Francisco to Mumbai suffered a technical snag in one of its engines, so passengers had to be deplaned during a scheduled halt at the city’s airport early on Tuesday.

Flight AI180 arrived at the airport on time at 0045 hrs, but the left engine’s technical snag delayed takeoff.

At about 0520 hrs, an announcement was made in the aircraft asking all the passengers to deplane.

The plane’s captain told the passengers that the decision was made in the interest of flight safety.