UP CM Yogi Adityanath's chopper makes emergency landing after hitting bird
India | June 26, 2022 13:09 ISTThe CM had come to Varanasi on Saturday and had paid obeisance at Kashi Vishwanath temple, besides holding a review meeting.
The CM had come to Varanasi on Saturday and had paid obeisance at Kashi Vishwanath temple, besides holding a review meeting.
SpiceJet Boeing 737, which had taken off from Patna to Delhi on Sunday, returned after some passengers reported of engine fire. The flight was carrying 185 passengers, all of whom were reported safe upon landing.
No injuries were reported during the emergency landing of the commercial plane.
Five such Emergency Landing Facilities (ELF) are in Assam, four in West Bengal, three in Andhra Pradesh, three in Gujarat, three in Rajasthan, two in Bihar, two in Haryana, two in Jammu and Kashmir, two in Tamil Nadu, and one each in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
A senior police official said that they got the call regarding the emergency landing at 10.15 a.m. No one was hurt in the incident.
A video footage showed the plane beginning a bumpy ascent before the right wing lifts into the air, sending the aircraft careening down the runway at a dramatic angle.
A passenger onboard felt uneasy and complained of breathing difficulty following which the flight was diverted to Bhubaneswar, officials said.
The flight landed at the Nagpur airport after suffering a glitch in one of the engines, an official said.
The Vistara flight UK-818, which took off from Bengaluru, landed in Indore at 9.30 pm on Thursday and the passenger was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was declared dead, he said.
No injuries were reported following the incident and nothing was found on the plane, according to CBS. The investigation is ongoing.
A Hyderabad-bound Indigo flight that departed from Kolkata made an emergency landing at Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) in Bhubaneswar following a medical emergency.
Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday inaugurated a 3-km-long emergency landing strip on National Highway 925 for the IAF aircraft.
Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari will inaugurate an Emergency landing field on National Highway-925 at Gandhav Bhakasar Section at Barmer, in Rajasthan on Thursday. According to an official statement, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has developed a 3-km section of Satta-Gandhav stretch of NH-925A, as an Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) for the Indian Air Force.
This project will improve connectivity between villages of Barmer and Jalore districts located on the international border, a statement said.
The parts of the 12 national highways that will be used as airstrips are being identified and prepared by the IAF.
The Boeing aircraft with 126 passengers on board landed at 11.40 am, the official said. The pilot was admitted to a local hospital, he added.
The plane had no passengers, due to the COVID-19 restrictions on international travel to certain destinations and was only carrying cargo and a crew of eight.
A Dhruv helicopter of the Indian Air Force made an emergency landing at a forward helipad in eastern Ladakh, sources told news agency PTI.
A two-seater training aircraft made an emergency landing on the Yamuna Expressway in Mathura on Thursday, with two people onboard. According to officials, the vehicle had developed a technical snag following which the incident occurred.
The aircraft with a patient, medical team and two crew members landed safely at Mumbai airport.
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