AI relief plane with food, engineers lands in Pak

July 09, 2012 14:02

Just in: The relief plane to evacuate the 130 stranded Air India passengers has landed at the Nawabshah airport in Sindh, Pakistan. The plane carries meals and refreshments and engineers to repair the stranded plane.

The plane had an emergency landing at the Nawabshah airport in southern Sindh in Pakistan this morning due to a technical fault.

The A-320 aircraft, with engineering material, full meal for the passengers and crew and technical staff left Delhi at 1145 hours, officials said, adding provisions have also been made there for refuelling of both the planes. The relief plane was earlier supposed to leave Delhi at 1045 hours, but its departure was delayed by an hour as several clearances were required for this special flight, they said.

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