Tata Group-owned Air India Friday said its Delhi-bound flight from Vienna October 9 was diverted to Dubai due to a technical issue.

The aircraft landed safely at Dubai and underwent necessary checks, it said in a statement, without sharing specific details.

The flight, operated by the same aircraft, departed Dubai at 08:45 hours IST and landed in Delhi at 12:19 hours IST.

Though Air India did not elaborate the “technical issue” due to which the flight was forced to divert to Dubai, the pilots body, Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) in a letter to the Civil Aviation Minister revealed that the Boeing 787 aircraft “experienced failures across critical systems which included Autopilots, ILS (instrument landing system), flight directors (FDs) and flight control system degradation with no aut

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