Mangaluru: Air India passengers wait for 10 hours as Abu Dhabi flight reports 'technical glitch'
Passengers were left waiting at Mangaluru International Airport overnight
Mangaluru: An Air India Flight that was to take off for Abu Dhabi from Mangaluru International Airport on Sunday night, left for its destination on Monday morning prompting a delay for nearly 10 hours. The passengers of the flight were also left waiting at the airport.
The Abu Dhabi bound flight was scheduled to take off at 8.45 pm on Sunday, but it vacated the passengers from the flight citing technical error in flight and the passengers were made to wait at the airport till Sunday morning.
The passengers expressed their dissent and complained that the airline did not arrange for any alternate option nor it arranged for the accommodation of the passengers. The flight left Mangaluru International Airport at 6.30 am on Monday after rectifying the technical glitch.
Speaking to Vartha Bharati Air india regional manager Sunil Bhat confirmed the incident and added “The flight was scheduled to take off at 8.45 pm last night but due to a technical glitch we had to hold it back. It took off for its destination at 6.30 am today morning”.
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Goa nightclub fire: Owners Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra fled to Phuket after tragedy, say police
Panaji (PTI): Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav Luthra, the main accused and owners of the Goa nightclub where a massive blaze claimed 25 lives, fled to Phuket hours after the tragedy, Goa Police said on Monday.
"Goa Police have taken further steps to coordinate with the Interpol Division of the CBI to apprehend both Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra at the earliest," a senior police officer said.
A massive fire at the nightclub, some 25 kilometres away from Panaji, on late Saturday night killed 25 persons. The deceased comprised 20 employees of the nightclub and five tourists, including four from Delhi. Five injured people were undergoing treatment at the government-run Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH).
After registering an FIR against them, a Look Out Circular was issued against them by December 7 by the Bureau of Immigration (BOI) at the request of the Goa Police.
The Bureau of Immigration at Mumbai was contacted, and it was found that both the accused had taken the 6E 1073 flight to Phuket at 5.30 am on December 7, immediately after the fire incident, which occurred around midnight, the officer said.
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He said the Goa Police had immediately dispatched a team to Delhi to conduct raids on the addresses of the accused Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra.
"Since they were not available, a notice under the appropriate sections of law was pasted on the gate of their house. This shows their intent to avoid the police investigation", he said.
Goa Police have obtained transit remand of Bharat Kohli, an employee of the club, and are bringing him to Goa.
He also said that the postmortem on all 25 deceased has been completed and bodies handed over to their families.
