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Air India plane makes emergency landing due to technical glitch

Xinhua, July 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

An Air India passenger plane with 127 people on board made an emergency landing in the eastern state of Bihar due to a technical glitch Friday evening, local media reported.

The plane was forced to return to Gaya and make an emergency landing minutes after it had taken off on a flight to Delhi, according to the Indo-Asian News Service.

Veteran Congress leader Shashi Tharoor was among 127 passengers in the plane that had to return around 10 to 12 minutes after the take-off, said the report.

All the passengers and crew are safe, it said.

Gaya is a famous Buddhist tourist center in India drawing tens of thousands of tourists from abroad every year. Endit