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The ferry flight AI183 is scheduled to depart Delhi this afternoon and return with the affected passengers on Wednesday morning. (Reuters\/Representational Image)<\/p>\nAir India will operate a relief flight on Tuesday to bring back 228 passengers who are stranded in Ulaanbaatar after their San Francisco-Delhi flight was diverted to the Mongolian capital on Monday due to a technical issue.<\/p>\n
The ferry flight AI183 is scheduled to depart Delhi this afternoon and return with the affected passengers on Wednesday morning. (Reuters\/Representational Image)<\/p>\n
The relief flight will return with the passengers on Wednesday morning, the airline said.<\/p>\n
There were 245 people in the plane, including 228 passengers and 17 crew members, a source said on Monday.<\/p>\n
“Air India will be operating a relief flight to ferry the passengers of flight AI174 (San Francisco\u2013Delhi of 02 November), which was diverted to Ulaanbaatar<\/a> on Monday. The ferry flight AI183 is scheduled to depart Delhi this afternoon and return with the affected passengers on Wednesday morning,” the airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n The relief flight will be operated with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.<\/p>\n The statement also said the airline along with local authorities and the Indian Embassy in Mongolia<\/a>, has been looking after the passengers and crew, including providing them hotel accommodation.<\/p>\n On Monday, the Tata Group-owned carrier said, “AI174m operating from San Francisco to Delhi via Kolkata, made a precautionary landing at Ulaanbaatar after the flight crew suspected a technical issue en route.”<\/p>\n