Air India flight returns to Hong Kong due to a midair technical issue

An Air India formation has returned to Hong Kong soon aft takeoff owed to a midair method issue

HONG KONG -- An Air India formation returned to Hong Kong connected Monday soon aft takeoff owed to a midair method issue, days aft different of the airline's flights crashed and killed astatine slightest 270 people.

Air India said successful a connection that the New Delhi-bound level landed successful Hong Kong safely and was undergoing checks “as a substance of abundant precaution.” Airport Authority Hong Kong said successful a abstracted connection that formation AI315 returned to the confederate Chinese city’s airdrome astir 1 p.m.

The level was a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the aforesaid exemplary arsenic the London-bound formation that struck a aesculapian assemblage hostel successful a residential country of the northwestern Indian metropolis of Ahmedabad minutes aft takeoff connected Thursday. The clang killed 241 radical connected committee and astatine slightest 29 connected the ground. One rider survived.

The emblem bearer of India said alternate arrangements person been made to alert the affected passengers to their destination astatine the earliest convenience.

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Roy reported from New Delhi. Associated Press video writer Alice Fung successful Hong Kong contributed to the report.

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