Air India Flight With 5 MPs On Board Makes Emergency Landing, Venugopal Calls It Narrow Escape

An Air India flight from Thiruvananthapuram to Delhi was diverted to Chennai on Sunday evening due to a technical issue. According to the details, the flight was airborne for more than two hours before it finally landed at the Chennai airport.

Details about the number of passengers were not available. However, the flight took off little past 8 pm from Thiruvananthapuram and landed in Chennai at around 10.35 pm, as per information from Flightradar24.com.

Congress MP KC Venugopal was among the passengers on the flight, and described the experience as “frighteningly close to tragedy" in a post shared on X.