Stranded passengers leave Lakshadweep for mainland

Kochi: After hours-long uncertainty, over hundred passengers who were stranded at Agatti airport in Lakshadweep left for the mainland by Friday afternoon.
An Alliance Air flight, scheduled to leave Agatti at 10.30am on Thursday, developed a technical failure, leaving more than hundred Keralite passengers, including elderly and children, stranded.
The passengers were asked to disembark and they were brought back to the airport pavilion.As the airport has no major food counters and facilities to accommodate a large number of passengers, they had a tough time. Local residents came to their rescue, finding accommodation facilities at homestays and hotels on Thursday night.
As the Alliance Air flight failed to take off, two aircrafts of Indigo too were unable to land at the airport. Only one aircraft can be parked at the airport at a time.
Indigo operated three services on Friday to carry stranded passengers and Alliance Air operated a service to mainland, besides the earlier scheduled service, it is learnt.