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Around 160 passengers, including Manipur Chief Minister Nongthombam Biren, had a close shave when their Air India flight suffered a bird hit while landing at the airport here. The Delhi-Guwahati-Imphal flight was grounded yesterday and passengers travelling to Imphal were left stranded. "Our AI flight was hit by a flying bird and airplane landed safely in Guwahati today," Biren tweeted yesterday.