New Delhi: Air India on Monday said its Mumbai-Newark and Delhi-New York flights have been "indefinitely delayed" due to Hurricane Sandy which is set to hit the East Coast of the United States. An Air India spokesperson said AI 191 Mumbai-Newark and AI 101 Delhi-New York have been indefinitely delayed due to the hurricane.
Passengers have been informed and transit passengers have been provided hotel accommodation in Delhi, the spokesperson said. Expected to landfall tonight with a gusty wind and heavy rainfall, the hurricane is likely to create havoc in major parts of the United States in its East Coast from North Carolina to New England as far west as the Great Lakes.
US President Barack Obama has declared emergency in a number of states including New York, New Jersey, Virginia, District of Columbia and Massachusetts. Thousands of emergency staff have been put in alert; government offices and schools have been closed for Monday and Tuesday and hundreds and thousands of people from the low lying areas have been asked to evacuate, as the hurricane is expected to bring potentially life-threatening storm surges on the coast ranging from several feet to potentially as high as 11-feet in the coastal areas.
The metro systems of several cities including that of Washington DC, the national capital, Philadelphia and New York, which has the world's largest rapid transit system, have been closed. The United Nations headquarters in New York too have been shut down for two days....
12:11 PM, Oct 29, 2012
Toronto: Inderjit Singh Reyat, the lone man convicted in the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing that killed 329 people, mostly Indians, on June 15 appealed against his perjury conviction in Canada's worst case of terrorism. Reyat was handed a nine-year prison sentence in 2011 for lying repeatedly at the 2003 trial of two men charged with mass murder and conspiracy. He was a Crown witness at the trial of Ripudaman...
01:39 PM, Jun 15, 2012
New Delhi: In an attempt to restore normalcy, Air India on Wednesday began international operations to the US and Europe as part of its contingency plan even as striking pilots asked the government to initiate preliminary talks. As the stir by the pilots entered the ninth day, the Airlines curtailed and clubbed many of its flights to the US and Europe to stabilise international operations. "We have put in force...
12:40 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: A Mumbai-Delhi Air India flight on Tuesday night landed under emergency condition at the airport in New Delhi following a bomb threat. Soon after AI-888 took off from Mumbai at 7:00 pm, the Air India call centre there received a phone call from an anonymous person saying the aircraft was carrying a baggage which had a bomb. The pilot of the Airbus A-319, carrying 117 passengers and six...
10:32 PM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: There was a lot of chaos at Mumbai International Airport on Friday night as 300 passengers protested after their of the Air India flight 965 to Jeddah was indefinitely delayed. The AI flight was supposed to take off at 3:40 am but was then postponed to 12:30 pm on Saturday. Passengers allege that they were not informed of the delay and were kept waiting. They also criticised the...
09:59 AM, Jul 30, 2011
Vancouver: A Canadian man's own actions will prove he lied to a court about having no knowledge of the conspiracy that led to the deadly bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985, prosecutors said at the start of a perjury trial on Thursday. Inderjit Singh Reyat is accused of lying more than a dozen times during the trial of two men who were eventually found not guilty of bombing...
12:51 PM, Sep 10, 2010
Passengers were unimpressed at the behaviour of Air India team member. ...
03:44 PM, May 26, 2010
Air India flight stowaway charged with criminal offence. ...
10:08 PM, Dec 26, 2009
Two major tragedies were averted at the Mumbai airport on Tuesday. ...
08:26 AM, Nov 11, 2009
Chute on both sides of aircraft allegedly open while plane was on fire. ...
10:12 PM, Sep 04, 2009
The report says the IAF helicopters landed without clearance. ...
12:02 AM, Jul 02, 2009
The 35-year-old Delhiite who has tested positive was on the flight. ...
06:07 PM, Jun 09, 2009
Canadian officials visited Burail Jail and questioned Jagtar Singh Hawara. ...
10:26 AM, Nov 12, 2008
Johannesburg: Highveld Lions on Saturday defeated Yorkshire comfortably by five wickets in a Group B encounter of the ongoing Champions League Twenty20, which effectively dashed the hopes of two IPL teams, defending champions Mumbai Indian and Chennai Super Kings. The Lions victory means both MI and CSK are out of the tournament, and the match between the two sides later in the day has now been reduced to a dead...
01:06 AM, Jul 10, 2008
New Delhi: Even as the cricketing world goes bonkers over Yusuf Pathan and Shane Watson's all-round abilities, former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram tips countryman Abdul Razzaq to hog the limelight in the forthcoming World Cup. "In spite of his great experience, he is relatively young and a proven match winner. If Razzaq can be a bit more mentally tough and physically robust, he will definitely end up as the player...
04:13 PM, Dec 12, 2007
Nusli Wadia carried a pistol and 30 live cartridges aboard Air India flight 717, flying from Mumbai to Dubai. ...
11:20 PM, Jan 21, 2007
Inderjit Singh Reyat, undergoing jail term for his role in the 1985 Air India plane bombing, is scheduled to go to trial next year for perjury. ...
03:42 PM, Oct 12, 2006
The long-awaited Air India inquiry opened with emotional testimony from families of some of the 329 victims. ...
11:58 AM, Sep 26, 2006
As a precautionary measure the aircraft, the passengers and the luggage have been searched to verify safety. ...
01:06 PM, Sep 13, 2006
