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AI Fixes Problems In A Boeing Plane Stranded In Magadan; Planes Departs For Mumbai

The airline announced on Saturday that Air India’s Boeing aircraft, which had been grounded in Magadan, in Russia’s far East, is now airborne after engineers fixed an oil system defect in one of the engines, and the plane will land in Mumbai later that day.

On June 6, AI 173, a Boeing 777-200LR flight from Delhi to San Francisco with 216 passengers and 16 crew members was diverted to the port city of Magadan in far east Russia due to a mid-air glitch in one of the engines.

All were delayed in the port city for two days before being transferred to San Francisco on June 8.

On June 10, In a statement, an Air India spokesperson stated that the B777-200LR aircraft, bearing registration mark VT-ALH, that was grounded in Magadan, Russia (GDX) following the diversion of AI173 DEL-SFO on June 6, has departed GDX and is on its way to Mumbai.

The statement further reads, “We can confirm that a defect in the oil system of one of the aircraft’s engines has been rectified by our engineering team that flew on a ferry flight to GDX on June 7”.

“The aircraft was checked on all safety parameters and certified serviceable before take off from GDX today”, the statement added.

According to a source, the aircraft is crewed by two pilots and eight cabin crew onboard.

The airline sent four engineers on the ferry trip to Magadan on June 7 and the issue of oil pressure in one of the engines of the stranded aircraft’s engines was fixed.

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Spriha Rai

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