 "AI flight loses contact with ATC over Hungary, reaches London safely")
Mumbai: An Air India Ahmedabad-London-Newark flight lost communication with the local Air Traffic Control and was escorted by fighter jets over Hungary, officials said here on Friday.
The flight AI-171 had departed from Ahmedabad at 7 am on Friday with 231 passengers and 18 crew members.
En route over Hungarian airspace, it lost contact for some time with the ATC, due to frequency fluctuations, AI officials said.
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The flight landed at 11.06 hrs, local time, in London safely, and AI has launched a probe into the incident.
The incident comes barely three weeks after a Jet Airways Mumbai-London flight with 345 persons on board had lost contact with the ground over German airspace and was escorted by fighter jets on 19 February.
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