Sri Lanka, June 6 -- A special relief flight has departed from Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) to Medan International Airport on the Indonesian island of Sumatra to transport 101 passengers and crew members of SriLankan Airlines flight UL 306, which was grounded due to a technical fault.

The national carrier said that the relief aircraft, UL302, departed from Colombo at 2:24 p.m. today to transport the passengers of UL306 from Medan to Singapore.

The airline said it is making every effort to get them to their destination as quickly as possible.

An engineering team was also dispatched from Colombo earlier today to attend to the grounded aircraft, it said.

SriLankan Airlines flight UL306 from Colombo to Singapore was diverted t...