{"id":11462,"date":"2025-06-16T15:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T15:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11462"},"modified":"2025-06-16T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T15:03:51","slug":"air-india-flight-returns-to-hong-kong-due-to-a-midair-technical-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11462","title":{"rendered":"Air India flight returns to Hong Kong due to a midair technical issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">HONG KONG &#8212; <\/span>An Air India flight returned to Hong Kong on Monday shortly after takeoff due to a midair technical issue, days after another of the airline&#8217;s flights <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/air-india-plane-crash-boeing-dna-test-b44556b7c0e9e04adcece615262e439e\">crashed and killed at least 270 people<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Air India said in a statement that the New Delhi-bound plane landed in Hong Kong safely and was undergoing checks \u201cas a matter of abundant precaution.\u201d Airport Authority Hong Kong said in a separate statement that flight AI315 returned to the southern Chinese city\u2019s airport around 1 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The plane was a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/india-plane-crash-what-to-know-4e99be1a0ed106d2f57b92f4cc398a6c\">Boeing 787<\/a> Dreamliner, the same model as the London-bound flight that struck a medical college hostel in a residential area of the northwestern Indian city of Ahmedabad <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/india-plane-crash-cad8dad5cd0e92795b03d357404af5f8\">minutes after takeoff on Thursday<\/a>. The crash killed 241 people on board and at least 29 on the ground. One passenger survived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The flag carrier of India said alternative arrangements have been made to fly the affected passengers to their destination at the earliest convenience. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Roy reported from New Delhi. Associated Press video journalist Alice Fung in Hong Kong contributed to the report. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG &#8212; An Air India flight returned to Hong Kong on Monday shortly after takeoff due to a midair technical issue, days after another of the airline&#8217;s flights crashed and killed at least 270 people. Air India said in a statement that the New Delhi-bound plane landed in Hong Kong safely and was undergoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11464,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462\/revisions\/11464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}