Friday, September 09, 2011

Air India plane forced to land under emergency conditions

Press Trust of India, Updated: September 09, 2011 23:20 IST

Kolk: An Air India plane from Guwahati, landed under emergency conditions at Kolkata's NSCB International airport here on Friday due to a technical snag. The plane had 105 people on board,

Airport sources said while preparing for routine landing, the pilot of AI 730 found there was a snag in the front wheel and immediately alerted the air traffic control.

After landing with all emergency safety measures in place, the aircraft remained static on the runway for eight minutes as per procedure before being towed away to a nearby spot, they said.

All the passengers and the crew safely disembarked around 12:55 pm, they said.

The same aircraft later left for Bengaluru.

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