Mumbai/Kochi, July 05: A special Air India flight with 183 people on board, including the forty six nurses freed by insurgents in Iraq, arrived here Sat morning, writing system relief for the Indian government and families of the stranded Indians.
The plane landed for refuelling and for loading food for the passengers. no one disembarked in Mumbai, and the plane is predicted to leave for Kochi, wherever it’ll land around 11.50 a.m.
The plane can then fly to Hyderabad and at last to New Delhi, Air India officers aforesaid.
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy aforesaid that at one purpose of time, he had lost all hope because the plane failed to get permission to land in Erbil because of serious wind.
He thanked External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for all efforts created to bring back the nurses to India.
The flight includes the forty six Indian nurses from Kerala whose fate in strife-torn Iraq had unbroken the whole nation on tenterhooks for the past few days.
Reports aforesaid several nurses protested at the Erbil airport, expression they will not board the plane unless they’re paid their four months’ arrear salary.
Indian officers persuaded them, and they finally agreed.
All the a hundred and eighty passengers, and 3 crew members, are reported to be safe, the officers aforesaid.
Chandy can receive the nurses at the Kochi airport, wherever a special immigration desk has been set up.
The Air India flight took off earlier from Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan, once the nurses were freed by the insurgents following intense Indian diplomatic efforts.
