New Delhi, Sep 6: Air India's Delhi-London flight, which was to depart from the IGI airport here at 2 pm on Monday, got delayed for more than three hours after a swarm of ants was found in the business class, sources said.

The AI-111 flight departed from the Delhi airport at around 5.20 pm instead of its scheduled departure time of 2 pm, they said.

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According to the sources, ants were found in a section of the business class just before the plane was about to take off. The plane was replaced with another Boeing 787-8 aircraft.

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