Frankfurt-Hyderabad flight returns to base mid-air
A Hyderabad-bound Lufthansa aircraft from Frankfurt returned to its base mid-air, sources said on Sunday. However, the reasons for the aborted flight were not immediately known.
Air Traffic Control (ATC) at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here received a message that the flight was returning to Frankfurt some time after it took off from Germany.
According to the website flightaware.com, flight LH752 departed Frankfurt at 2:15 PM and was originally expected to land in Hyderabad at 6:00 AM on Monday.
According to the website, the aircraft is a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
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