Mumbai: A London-bound Air India flight (AIC129) returned to Mumbai after remaining in air for three hours on Friday morning, reported news agency PTI quoting FlightRadar24. The flight took off from Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport at around 5:39 am.

As per the latest update, the flight is somewhere over Alibaug, which is around 100 km from Mumbai. Notably, several flights have been diverted after Israel carried out strikes on Iran in the intervening night of June 12 and 13.

Ahmedabad Plane Crash:

A London-bound Air India flight (AIC129) returned to Mumbai after remaining in air for three hours on Friday morning, reported news agency PTI quoting FlightRadar24. The flight took off from Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport at around 5:39 am.

On Thursday, the oeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane with 242 people onboard, which was headed for London's Gatwick Airport crashed into a medial collage hostel with intow minutes after take off. The incidnet took place at around 1:40 pm.

The flight carried 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, seven Portuguese nationals, and one Canadian national. Only one person survived the atatck, He is a British national of Indian origin.

The aircraft was piloted by Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, a Line Training Captain with 8,200 hours of flying experience, assisted by First Officer Clive Kundar, who had logged 1,100 flying hours.