(MENAFN) Aviation officials declared that up to 30 passengers have been wounded after a passenger plane lost cabin pressure shortly after it departed from India's financial capital Mumbai.
The Boeing 737 aircraft was operated by private carrier Jet Airways and was heading to the western Indian state of Rajasthan's capital Jaipur, carrying 166 people abroad.
Lalit Gupta of Directorate General of Civil Aviation confirmed: "The 9W 697 Mumbai-Jaipur flight was turned back to Mumbai after take-off as, during the climb, crew forgot to select switch to maintain cabin pressure. This resulted in the oxygen masks dropping."
He added: "Thirty out of 166 passengers experienced nose and ear bleeding, some also complained of headache."
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