NEW DELHI: Air India will function a reduction flight on Tuesday to convey again 228 passengers stranded in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. This comes after the airline’s San Francisco–Delhi flight was diverted on Monday on account of a technical difficulty.The airline stated the particular reduction flight, numbered AI183, will depart from Delhi on Tuesday afternoon and return with the affected passengers on Wednesday morning. The flight will probably be operated utilizing a Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane.The diversion occurred after pilots on flight AI174, working from San Francisco to Delhi through Kolkata, detected a doable technical difficulty mid-air and made a precautionary touchdown at Ulaanbaatar. The Boeing 777 plane carrying 245 folks, together with 228 passengers and 17 crew members, landed safely.“Air India will probably be working a reduction flight to ferry the passengers of flight AI174 (San Francisco–Delhi of November 2), which was diverted to Ulaanbaatar on Monday. The ferry flight AI183 is scheduled to depart Delhi this afternoon and return with the affected passengers on Wednesday morning,” an Air India spokesperson stated.The airline added that it has been working intently with native authorities and the Indian Embassy in Mongolia to help all passengers and crew. Preparations for lodge lodging, meals and common updates have been made for these stranded.“At Air India, the security and wellbeing of our passengers and crew stay our prime precedence,” the spokesperson stated.Air India confirmed that the diverted Boeing 777 is present process mandatory technical checks in Ulaanbaatar. As soon as cleared by engineers, the plane will probably be flown again individually.This isn’t the primary time an Air India long-haul flight has needed to divert on account of technical causes. In 2023, an Air India San Francisco–Delhi flight made a precautionary touchdown in Magadan, Russia, after a technical difficulty was detected mid-air. One other diversion occurred in 2024, when a flight on the identical route landed in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. In each circumstances, passengers have been later repatriated utilizing alternate plane.