After the plane carrying Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from Bagdogra was made to hover the Kolkata sky for over 40 minutes on Wednesday, her lieutenant Union minister Mukul Roy termed it as a conspiracy.
“It’s a conspiracy. We were not informed about anything. We in fact panicked,”' said Roy, who was accompanying the chief minister on the Jet Airways flight. Both were returning to the city after visiting Darjeeling and Sikkim in the wake of Sunday’s earthquake.
Mamata, however, played down the incident and instead thanked the pilot of the aircraft for “averting a disaster”.
“We had to hover in the sky for an hour. They are saying it was a technical fault. But the pilot was very good. It’s because of him that no disaster happened. I thank him for his feat,” Banerjee said before she left the Writers’ Buildings late in the evening.
Expressing surprise over Roy’s allegations, Airport Director B P Sharma said: “It’s a conspiracy by whom and against whom? I can’t understand. But you better check with the ATC.”
According to reports, Air Traffic Control at the NSC Bose International Airport directed the Jet Airways flight, which was scheduled for the 2.55 pm touchdown, and some other flights, to remain airborne as it had given permission to a Kingfisher aircraft for an emergency landing.
The pilot of Bagdogra-Guwahati Kingfisher flight had sought permission from the ATC to make an emergency landing as it could not land at Guwahati airport due to bad weather. Moreover, the aircraft was running short of fuel and it was allowed to make an emergency landing at the airport here, sources said.
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