London/Hyderabad, Jun 15 (PTI) A Lufthansa flight to Hyderabad was pressured to make a U-turn and returned to land again at Frankfurt Airport on Sunday night after passengers had been advised it was not given “permission to land” in India.

Flight LH752 departed from Germany round 14.14 native time Sunday and was scheduled to land at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Airport early Monday however flight tracker knowledge confirmed a diversion a couple of hours into the flight.

A passenger on board the flight advised PTI from Frankfurt Airport that they had been being supplied in a single day lodging as their flight was rescheduled for Monday morning.

“We simply landed again in Frankfurt round quarter-hour in the past and all we had been advised is that Hyderabad hasn’t given permission to land the flight there,” mentioned the feminine passenger en route from the US to go to her mom in Hyderabad.

“It was a clean flight and after about two hours within the air, we had been advised that we might be returning to Frankfurt. Now on the airport, they’re offering us lodging for the night time and have advised us that we will fly out tomorrow morning at 10am on the identical flight,” she mentioned.

There was no fast feedback from authorities in Hyderabad.

Whereas Lufthansa has been approached for additional updates and causes behind the aborted flight, a Frankfurt Airport spokesperson confirmed that LH752 had landed again in Germany.

“We will verify that there was a return to Frankfurt Airport. For additional data, please contact the Federal Police or the airline,” the spokesperson mentioned.

Lufthansa’s reside flight tracker on its web site confirmed LH752 landed again at Frankfurt round 1730 native time. In response to the web site, the plane is a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.

Earlier tracker knowledge for the flight exhibiting it was en path to Hyderabad was up to date simply earlier than the up to date touchdown data for Frankfurt.

The flight tracker web site flightaware.com additionally mirrored related data, although the precise causes behind the diversion stay unestablished.

Air Visitors Management (ATC) at Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Airport acquired a message that the flight was returning to Frankfurt a short time after it had taken off from the German hub airport. PTI AK GDK ZH ZH