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Emergency Landing in Delhi


Pictured: an Air India Boeing 777-337/ER
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Contact photographer Rick Schlamp

What: Air India en route from Delhi to Chennai
Where: Visakhapatnam airport, Delhi
When: Thu, 15 Oct 2009
Who: 162 passengers
Why: Twenty minutes after take-off, the Air India flight experienced an undefined technical problem and returned safely to the airport, where passengers debarked and were re-routed on another Air India flight, and technicians worked on the plane.

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