Mid-air technical issue forces Air India flight to return to Hong Kong

An Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet (Francois Mori/AP)

An Air India flight returned to Hong Kong on Monday shortly after take-off because of a mid-air technical issue, days after another of the airline’s planes crashed and killed at least 270 people.

Air India said in a statement that the New Delhi-bound plane landed in Hong Kong safely and was undergoing checks “as a matter of abundant precaution”.