Chennai: The departure of a Dubai-bound Emirates Airways flight scheduled to take off from Chennai at 9.45 am on Thursday with 369 passengers was rescheduled following a technical snag, airport officials said.
The passengers had boarded the flight in the morning but were made to wait in the aircraft for three hours before being disembarked citing the technical snag, they said.
They were provided lunch at the airport and later shifted to a hotel at around 3 pm, the officials said, adding that the flight was expected to take off late this evening.
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04:45 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Two aircraft with a total of 395 passengers onboard narrowly escaped a mid-air collision as one of them landed within a minute after the other took off on the same runway at the international airport in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday. The possibility of a mishap was there as a Sri Lankan Airlines flight landed in the airport within a minute after Dubai-bound Emirates Airways flight took off, airport officials said.... 
