Mumbai: A charter plane carrying 276 passengers, mostly Indians, grounded in France for four days over suspected human trafficking, landed at the Mumbai airport on early Tuesday morning, news agency PTI reported.
The Airbus A340 from Dubai in the UAE, which had initially been bound for Nicaragua before French authorities halted its departure, landed in Mumbai just after 4am, aviation tracking website Flightradar24 showed. It had taken off from Vatry airport near Paris around 2.30pm local time.
The flight, operated by Romanian charter company Legend Airlines and bound for Nicaragua, had landed with 303 Indians at Vatry on Thursday for a technical stopover en route from Dubai when French authorities grounded it.
French authorities said the plane had 276 passengers on board when it took off for Mumbai. As many as 25 persons, including two minors, had expressed the wish to apply for asylum and were still on French soil.
Two others were held and produced before a judge, who were brought before a judge, were released and placed on assisted witness status, a French news channel said.
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