Face of Nation : President Ram Nath Kovind’s flight from Switzerland to Slovenia was delayed for about three hours on Sunday after his Air India One faced a technical glitch at the Zurich airport.
During this time, an Air India Boeing 777 that was to operate on London-Mumbai sector, was kept on standby at Heathrow as an alternate aircraft to be flown to Zurich for the President’s journey if need be, sources in the airline said.
The President drove to the airport but was asked to return to his hotel after a ”Rudder Fault” was detected in the aircraft.Albeit, the Air India One was rectified by AI engineers, and it flew President Kovind to Slovenia following a delay of three hours. The President arrived in Slovenia on Sunday on the third leg of his three-nation tour to Europe.
