A New Jersey-bound Air India flight from Mumbai was on Thursday diverted to Kazakhstan due to technical problem.
Taking to micro-blogging site, Air India tweeted, "AI191 Mumbai - Newark has been diverted to Kazakhstan due to operational reasons. All pax are being taken care of."
The Boeing 777-300 ER plane landed at an international airport in Kazakhstan at around 0800 hours after "some alarm went off".
Air India is dispatching a relief aircraft from New Delhi to ferry the stranded passengers from Kazakhstan to Newark.
An airline spokesperson said the flight was diverted due to technical reasons. There was some alarm that went off and the engineers are inspecting the flight, he added.
In a tweet, the airline said the flight has been diverted on account of operational reasons and that all passengers are being taken care of.
DNA
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