Air India has announced to send a special plane to bring back the people stranded in Milan to India on Sunday (October 19, 2025) afternoon. The airline has expressed its commitment to bring back 256 passengers stranded in Milan from Friday (October 17, 2025) to India by special flight. Actually, Air India flight AI138 was scheduled to fly from Milan to Delhi on Friday (October 17, 2025). But due to a technical glitch, the flight was canceled, after which the passengers of the flight are stranded in Milan.

Air India shared a post in this regard on social media platform X on Sunday (October 19). In the post, the airline said, ‘Air India will send a special aircraft from Milan today (Sunday, October 19) to bring back the stranded passengers of flight AI138, which was canceled due to a technical glitch.’

Air India said that it has provided all kinds of immediate facilities including hotel accommodation and food to all the affected passengers. Apart from this, as per the wish of the passengers, arrangements are also being made for full refund or complimentary rescheduling. The airline said that we are committed to providing all possible help to all our passengers.

flight AI138 has had technical problems before too

A similar incident had happened with Air India flight AI138 on August 16, two months before Friday (October 17), when a technical fault was found in the plane during pushback and the journey was cancelled.

Regarding that incident, the airline had said, ‘When the aircraft was getting ready to take off from Milan to Delhi, a maintenance problem was encountered on the aircraft. After this, the operating crew came under the limitations of the required flight duty time, which made it extremely unsafe and inappropriate for them to continue the flight. Therefore the journey was cancelled.

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