Air India has ordered a “full inquiry” in the incident where President Ram Nath Kovind’s Air India One flight was delayed at Zurich onSunday after the plane developed a technical snag, reported news agency .
The Boeing 747 aircraft was scheduled to fly the President from Zurich to Slovenia.
The President’s departure from Switzerland to Slovenia was delayed for about three hours on Sunday after his Air India One faced atechnical glitch at the Zurich airport.
The President drove to the airport but was asked to return to his hotel after a ‘Rudder Fault’ was detected in the aircraft.Soon after the snag was detected, Air India kept a Boeing 777 plane on standby at London tofly to Zurich for Kovind, reported quotinga source.
The glitch, however, was set right at Zurich by Air Indiaengineers and Kovind took off for Slovenia, the source told Kovind is on a tourto Iceland, Switzerland and Slovenia that started on September 9. Air Indiaplanes are used for ferrying VVIPs, including the President and the PrimeMinister
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