#Air India sends Boeing 777 to bring back nurses from #Iraq

Air India is sending a Boeing 777 aircraft to bring back 46 nurses and other Indians stranded in strife-torn Iraq.

The Boeing 777, a long-range plane with a seating capacity for about 300 passengers, has taken off from Delhi’s IGI Airport to Erbil in north Iraqi region of Kurdistan and is likely to return to Kochi on its way back, civil aviation ministry officials told here.

Air India, which had kept three wide-body planes and crew on standby for evacuation of Indian nationals from Iraq, was awaiting government’s instructions to launch the flights.