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Badal's helicopter makes emergency landing in Punjab
Chandigarh:
A helicopter, carrying Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir
Singh Badal, was forced to make an emergency landing in
Punjab's Ferozepur district on Sunday after developing
a suspected technical snag. Chief Minister's media advisor
Harcharan Bains said the helicopter, Bell 230, was chartered
by Punjab Government, and that pilots experienced some
difficulty just before the scheduled landing in Jalalabad.
"Preliminary reports pointed towards a technical fault
in the cyclical control of the helicopter. The pilots
ejected some of the fuel of the chopper before steering
the helicopter to an unscheduled landing site," Bains
said. The Government further has referred the incident
to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for
an inquiry and would make a statement on the causes of
the emergency landing only after the DGCA submits its
report.
-August
30, 2009
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