AI flight cancelled after being hit by vehicle

A Jeddah-bound Air India flight carrying over 400 passengers was cancelled after it suffered damage when a vehicle hit it.

The incident occurred Monday morning when a tractor carrying passengers’ luggage hit the aeroplane on its side,following which the flight was cancelled,airport sources said.

The passengers,most of them Haj pilgrims,would be flown to their onward destination in a separate flight later in the day,they added.