New Delhi, July 10: Twenty-six passengers were asked to voluntarily deplane after a Paris-bound Air France flight suffered a "technical problem" at the New Delhi airport in the wee hours of Wednesday.

The pilot and crew of Air France AF225 told passengers that their checked-in luggage would be offloaded due to an unspecified technical glitch, urging them to disembark for the plane to take off. Air France's Mumbai-Bound Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Iran.

It is not known if the deboarded passengers were flown out on the next flight to Paris, as is commonly done in such cases.

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