Only in India: Mosquitoes delay Mumbai-Kochi Air India flight

February 09, 2016 10:20

Rama Iyer, a professional working in the pharmaceutical sector in Mumbai, was scheduled to take a 05:30am Air India flight from the Mumbai airport to Kochi on Monday.

The flight however got delayed for over an hour due to a rather strange issue, claims Rama, who was on a business trip.

The cabin of the Air India flight AI054, he says, had a "lot of mosquitoes".

"The passengers had already boarded the aircraft. And there were a lot of mosquitoes inside the cabin," he tells TNM, adding that it was not the passengers who seem to have complained, but the captain of the aircraft who asked them to deplane.

"The captain announced that due to the 'mosquito menace', they were unable to take off. They asked the passengers to take their hand luggage and deplane while they fumigated the cabin," he further said.

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