New Delhi, June 15 -- A Lufthansa flight bound for Hyderabad from Frankfurt was forced to return to its base mid-air on Sunday, sources confirmed. The reasons behind the aborted journey have not yet been disclosed.

The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport's Air Traffic Control (ATC) received a notification that the aircraft was turning back to Frankfurt shortly after departing Germany. Flight LH752, operated by a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, took off from Frankfurt at 14:15 local time and was originally scheduled to arrive in Hyderabad at 06:00 on Monday morning, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.

In a separate incident, a British Airways flight from London to Chennai also returned to Heathrow Airport due to a flap failure. The...