Varanasi:
A Delhi-bound Air India plane with 135 passengers on board was forced to make an emergency landing at an airport in Varanasi today due to a technical snag, about 15 minutes after it took off.
The Air India plane took off at 4:40 PM from Varanasi's Lal Bahadur Shashtri International airport for New Delhi, but just after 15 minutes of flying, it had to land back again at the airport due to detection of a technical snag in the aircraft by its pilot, said airport manager K P Singh.
The technical fault of the aircraft was rectified by the engineers and the plane took off at 6 PM, said Mr Singh.
The plane was going from Gaya to New Delhi via Varanasi.