Delhi-bound flight returns

An Indian flight to Delhi with 87 passengers and five crew members returns to Kochi after being airborne for half-an-hour following reduction in cabin pressure.

An Indian flight to Delhi with 87 passengers and five crew members returned to Kochi after being airborne for half-an-hour following reduction in cabin pressure, airport sources said.

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The flight IC 166 left Kochi at 10 50 am and returned to the airport at 11 20 am as the pressure in the cabin started falling, the sources said.

The technical fault was rectified and the flight again took off with the passengers at around one pm, the sources said.