Alliance Air plane makes emergency landing at IGI

New Delhi: An Alliance Air plane with 32 people on board landed under emergency conditions at Delhi airport on Saturday.
An alert was sounded by officials at the Pathankot airport, from where the plane had taken off, about pieces of rubber on the tarmac. The Alliance Air flight (CD 7814) was flying on the Delhi-Ludhiana-Pathankot-Delhi route.
The turbo-prop ATR-42 aircraft landed at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport safely after the emergency exercise was set in motion, with ambulances and fire-brigades positioned along the runway here, airport officials said.
Sources said that the aircraft was supposed to first land at Ludhiana but couldn’t do so due to bad weather.
“It had to land at Delhi directly and was running short on fuel and had to ask for a priority landing,” said an airport official who didn’t wish to be named.
04/06/10 Hindustan Times

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