Air France deplanes 26 passengers from its Delhi-Paris flight

The pilot and crew of Air France AF225 told passengers that their checked-in luggage would be offloaded due to an unspecified technical glitch, urging them to disembark for the plane to take off.

Twenty-six passengers were asked to voluntarily deplane after a Paris-bound Air France flight suffered a “technical problem” at the New Delhi airport in the wee hours of Wednesday.

Twenty-six passengers were asked to voluntarily deplane after a Paris-bound Air France flight suffered a “technical problem”. (ANI Photo)

The pilot and crew of Air France AF225 told passengers that their checked-in luggage would be offloaded due to an unspecified technical glitch, urging them to disembark for the plane to take off.

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It is not known if the deboarded passengers were flown out on the next flight to Paris, as is commonly done in such cases.

(This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text.)