Plane makes emergency landing in Chandigarh

Chandigarh/Shimla: A chartered plane made an emergency landing at Chandigarh airport on Sunday after a technical snag forced it to abandon scheduled landing at Shimla in Himachal Pradesh and return, Chandigarh airport officials said.
According to the officials, the Saraya Aviation plane took off from Chandigarh airport Sunday morning and was scheduled to land at Shimla airport.
"The plane had reached Shimla but it could not land there as some technical problem developed in the engine. Therefore, it came back and made a safe landing here around 11.30 am," said an official of Chandigarh airport.
Shimla's airport controller Anil Goswami said the plane was scheduled to land there but at the last minute the landing was aborted due to some technical snag in the plane.
Officials said landing at Shimla airport, at an altitude of 2,196 metres above the sea level, is a challenging task as it is among the three table-top airports in the country.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal informed the state assembly in March this year that the runway of the Shimla airport has shrunk due to soil erosion and there are plans to restore it.
06/06/10 Indo-Asian News Service/Hindustan Times

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Categories: Airports Jun 2010, Safety Jun 2010