An Air India flight from Delhi to Moscow was asked to return midway on Saturday[]— after its ground team realised that one of the pilots onboard the plane tested positive for coronavirus, officials in the airline and aviation regulator DGCA told PTI. The Airbus A320 plane departed around 7.15 am for Moscow to bring back a group of stranded Indians under the Vande Bharat evacuation mission and it was back in Delhi by 12.30 pm following orders from the authorities, they said. Two senior bureaucrats confirmed that there was a “lapse” on the part of officials responsible to scrutinise the coronavirus test reports of the crew members and that they did not look at the pilot’s test results properly. The A320 plane did not have any passengers as it was heading to Moscow to bring back stranded Indians under Vande Bharat Mission.
— source thewire.in | 30/May/2020