Air India is going to bring back its 228 passengers on a relief flight after they got stranded in Mongolia's Ulaanbaatar, the airline said on Tuesday.

The passengers got stranded in the Mongolian capital on Monday after their San-Francisco to Delhi flight faced some technical glitch and was diverted to the city.

As per a report by PTI, there were 245 people on the Air India AI174 San Francisco-Delhi flight, including 228 passengers and 17 crew members.

The Air India relief flight has departed from Delhi on Tuesday afternoon. Also Read | Air India Delhi–Bengaluru flight lands in Bhopal after technical snag

"Air India will be operating a relief flight to ferry the passengers of flight AI174 (San Francisco–Delhi of 02 November), which was diverted to Ulaanbaatar on Monday. The ferr

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