After 39 hours, 232 crew & passengers leave Magadan for San Francisco on another Air India aircraft
8 June
Thirty-nine hours after diverting to Russia’s far eastern port city of Magadan, the 232 passengers and crew members of Air India’s diverted Delhi-San Francisco (SFO) flight of June 6 finally left for their destination on Thursday.AI 173 had taken off from Delhi on June 6 at 4.05 am and had made a precautionary landing in Magadan at 2.10 pm (all timings IST) due to an engine snag on the Boeing 777. AL sent another B777 from Mumbai as ferry flight (no passengers) to the Russian city on Wednesday afternoon which finally took those stranded there to SFO at 5 am (IST) on June 8. The aircraft is expected to arrive in SFO at 12.15 am (Pacific daylight time).