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Boeing Dreamliner Turns Back After Pilot Finds Alarming Issue Mid-Flight

The Air India jet was the same type of aircraft involved in the crash that led to 270 deaths.

An Air India flight was forced to turn around and return to Hong Kong after an unspecified technical issue was discovered with the aircraft. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner—the same craft involved in last week’s devastating crash in Ahmedabad which killed 270 people—was an hour into a flight to New Delhi when the pilot suspected a problem and turned around. The exact nature of the technical issue is not currently known but the craft is currently undergoing a series of maintenance checks to determine the problem, Reuters reports. An Air India spokesperson told Sky News: “We are providing all necessary on-ground assistance to the passengers to minimise the inconvenience caused by this unforeseen disruption.” All but one of the passengers and crew aboard the 787-8 Air India flight bound for London Gatwick were killed when the plane crashed into a residential area just moments after takeoff last Thursday. Preliminary investigations suggest an “extremely rare” double engine failure could have been responsible for the crash, one of the worst aviation accidents in decades.