Kochi-bound Air India flight makes emergency landing at Mangalore airport

Officials say there was some technical snag; details are yet to be disclosed

A Kochi-bound Air India flight from Mumbai with 58 passengers and crew on board made an emergency landing at the airport in Mangalore on Monday due to a technical snag.

"The Air India flight coming from Mumbai and heading towards Kochi made an emergency landing at 7.50 PM at the Mangalore airport due to a technical snag," an airport official said.

He, however, declined to give details of the nature of the snag.

The official said the airline's engineers were looking into the issue and that the passengers would be flown to their onward destinations later tonight or tomorrow, depending on the time taken to rectify the problem.