The Boieng 747-800 got stranded after landing at Kolkatta from Dhaka with 76 passengers early on Saturday.Fifty-nine more passengers boarded the aircraft from Kolkata. But the plane could not depart due to a technical snag.
With no engineering base of Air India here for Boeing aircraft engineers, technicians and spare parts had to be flown in from Mumbai. The airline went on postponing the departure several times.
But by the time the plane was repaired the flight duty time limitation period of the crew was over and so the flight could not take off. There were also no spare Boeing crew in Kolkata to operate the flight, airline officials said.
All the passengers were asked to disembark and stay in the lounge.
The flight was then cancelled for the day. It finally left at 0400 hours with 136 passengers, according to an airline
official.
