KONDOTTY: Following a six-hour delay of an Air India Express flight, passengers protested at Karipur Airport on Sunday. The IX 345, which was supposed to take off to Dubai at 8.30 a.m. on Sunday morning suffered an engine failure. The issue came to notice after the passengers boarded the flight. There were 186 passengers on this flight. Attempts were made to resolve this but were unsuccessful. Passengers were taken to Thiruvananthapuram airport and were asked to board another flight to Dubai.