Pig strays into runway; delays flight landing

Nagpur: The landing of Mumbai-Nagpur Jet airways flight was delayed by nearly ten minutes on Wednesday after a pig strayed into the runway at the Ambedkar international airport here, airport sources said.
The flight, with 135 passengers on board, including Maharashtra PWD minister Anil Deshmukh and senior politician Ranjit Deshmukh, aborted the landing for a while this morning and hovered in the sky before coming down safely after the animal was driven away, sources said.
This is the third instance in a fortnight when an animal obstructed flight landing at the airport, they added.
07/05/08 PTI/The Hindu

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