Air India passengers stranded overnight at Varanasi airport due to technical glitch

Varanasi | Tuesday | 28th August, 2018

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VARANASI: The air passengers to Sharjah remain stranded overnight at the terminal building of Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, Babatpur on Monday night Owing to the technical snag in the engine of the aircraft of Varanasi-Sharjah flight (IX-183) of Air India . The passengers were asked to wait at the terminal building until the repairing of the engine.As most of the shops at the terminal building were closed in late night, the passengers remained high and dry, and they created ruckus at the terminal building. But, it was a practical problem to send the passengers to hotels in the odd hour, and the airport is far away from the city, he said. After detecting some snag in the engine the pilot contacted the air traffic control (ATC) and took the aircraft back to the apron. The passengers could be accommodated to different hotels in the city on Tuesday morning..