India, Jan. 16 -- In a rare incident of its kind, Air India's newest Airbus A350, operating a Delhi-New York flight with over 250 passengers on board, sustained engine damage after ingesting an improperly secured baggage container while taxiing to its parking bay at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport amid dense fog on Thursday morning.

The aircraft had to return to Delhi after takeoff due to the sudden closure of Iranian airspace. Then, while taxiing to the parking bay at IGI Airport, an improperly secured container was sucked into one of its engines. No one was injured in the incident. Flight-tracking data showed that the aircraft (registration VT-JRB) departed Delhi at 2:36 a.M. And was cruising over Ahmedabad airspace when the ...