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Air India flight carrying 216 stranded passengers lands in US

Air India flight landed in San Francisco carrying 216 passengers and 16 crew members stranded at Magadan in far east Russia for two days after the original aircraft had to be diverted there following a mid-air engine glitch. On Wednesday, Air India sent a ferry flight to Magadan, in Russia to fly onwards to their original destination. The Delhi-SFO flight of June 6 was diverted to the port city following a mid-air glitch in one of the Boeing 777-200LR engines and its subsequent emergency landing there.