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An Air India plane made an emergency landing at Nawabshah airport on Monday due to technical malfunction,Express News reported.
The Airbus A320 from Abu Dhabi made the unscheduled stop at Nawabshah airport Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) spokesman Pervez George told AFP. Express News had earlier reported that the plane was coming from Dubai.
“A group of Indian technical experts will arrive in Nawabshah by 11:45am on another plane that will take the passengers to Delhi before the technicians fix the plane,” he said.
The Indian captain was offered use of the airport lounges for the flight’s 122 passengers and eight crew, an official said, but refused.
“We had offered full cooperation to them but the Airbus captain did not allow the passengers to disembark and requested just for drinking water,” Sultan Hasan, spokesman for the state-run Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), told AFP.
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