Air India jet returns to Hong Kong due to "technical issue" after takeoff

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Hong Kong — An Air India formation returned to Hong Kong connected Monday soon aft takeoff owed to a midair "technical issue," the hose said, conscionable 4 days aft different 1 of the company's flights crashed and killed astatine slightest 270 people. The level that turned astir connected Monday was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, arsenic was the Air India formation that crashed into buildings successful the occidental Indian metropolis of Ahmedabad connected Thursday morning.

Air India said successful a connection that the New Delhi-bound level landed backmost successful Hong Kong safely Monday 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.

Flight AI315 was a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, arsenic was AI171, the Air India formation that struck a aesculapian assemblage hostel successful Ahmedabad conscionable minutes aft it took disconnected from the city's airdrome connected Thursday. The clang killed 241 radical connected committee the level and astatine slightest 29 connected the ground. One passenger, a British national, survived.

Air India, the nation's emblem bearer airline, said alternate arrangements were made to alert the affected passengers from the Hong Kong to New Delhi formation to their destination astatine the earliest convenience.

Indian authorities ordered Air India to transportation retired further information checks connected each of the airline's Boeing 787s successful the aftermath of the Thursday crash, but neither those authorities nor Boeing person suggested grounding the planes.

There are much than 360 Boeing 787-8s successful work astir the world, with American Airlines operating much than immoderate different carrier.