Updated On: 13 January, 2026 01:50 PM IST | Mumbai | PTI
Passengers on an Akasa Air Pune-Bengaluru flight were deplaned after a last-minute technical glitch delayed the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, leaving them seated for nearly 90 minutes. The flight was scheduled to depart from Pune at 8.50 am, and boarding started around 8.10 am, a passenger onboard the glitch-hit Boeing aircraft said

Passengers had boarded the aircraft and the flight was getting ready for departure when some technical issue was reported in the aircraft. File Pic
Akasa Air deplaned passengers from a Bengaluru-bound flight at the Pune airport on Tuesday morning due to a technical glitch in the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, and the airline said the flight has now been rescheduled.
The passengers were seated in the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft for nearly one-and-a-half hours before they were deplaned, one of the passengers who was on the flight told PTI.