Patna: A JetLite flight from Mumbai to Patna via Ranchi with 95 passengers on board had a close call as it suffered a bird hit while landing at the Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport here on Wednesday morning.
The S2-721 flight took off from Mumbai at 5.40am and landed at Ranchi at 7:55am from where it took off for Patna at 8:35am. As the Boeing-737 approached the Patna airport around 9.20am, its nose hit an eagle at an altitude of 1,000 metres.
Though the commander landed the plane safely, he asked for a thorough technical inspection of the aircraft before flying it to Mumbai. While JetLite's three Patna-based engineers detected few snags, sources said, another technical team reached Patna from Delhi by the JetLite's afternoon flight to help them remove the snags.
01/06/11 Alok K N Mishra/Times of India
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