Mumbai, Today, a Newark-bound Air India flight, carrying around 300 passengers diverted to Kazakhstan due to technical issues.

Air India is dispatching a relief aircraft from New Delhi to ferry the stranded passengers from Kazakhstan to Newark.

According to an airline spokesperson, “the flight was diverted due to technical reasons. There was some alarm that went off and the engineers are inspecting the flight”.

The Boeing 777-300 ER plane landed at an international airport in Kazakhstan at around 0800 hours after some alarm went off.

Airline said in a tweet, that “the flight has been diverted on account of operational reasons and that all passengers are being taken care of.”