Air India calls back flight to carry passenger

Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 3:11 am

An Air India flight for Nagpur was called back to Mumbai, when it had gone half way, to accommodate a passenger, who was travelling to Nagpur to attend his ailing wife but missed it due to a goof-up at the Mumbai Airport on Friday (November 21).

The flight was called back purely on humanitarian grounds as the passenger’s wife was in a ‘serious condition’ and the flight was the last one in the day, an Air India official said. “We called back the flight, IC 629, only on humanitarian grounds as the passenger told our staff that his wife was seriously ill and it was important for him to reach Nagpur,” the official said.

The passenger, whose identity has not been revealed, missed the flight after he mistakenly boarded the bus at the airport, meant for Ahmedabad flight. “When he reached the aircraft and displayed his boarding pass, staff told him it was for Nagpur flight and which had already left,” the official said.

He requested the airport officials that it was urgent for him to reach there as his wife was seriously ill, the official said. “So we decided to call back the flight and allow him to board the flight,” he said. The flight which had originally taken off from Mumbai Airport at around 7 PM, left at 8.40 PM after picking up the passenger.

(With inputs from agencies)

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Air India calls back flight to carry passenger

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