Major mishap averted, deer run over at Nagpur airport

Nagpur: A major mishap was averted at the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport on Monday morning after a barking deer was crushed under the wheels of Nagpur-Delhi Air India plane, carrying over 80 passengers and crew on board. According to airport sources, the incident occurred at 9.20am when the flight AI 628 was taking off for Delhi. This is the eighth incident at the airport in the last one month when a wild animal has strayed onto the runaway causing disturbance. Two wild boars had last week come under the wheels of a flight.
VK Yadav, senior station director of the Nagpur airport, informed that all the passengers of Air India were safe and the flight took off 30 minutes late.
He, however, candidly admitted that there were deers, wild boars and stray dogs in the airport vicinity. "We have requested the state forest department to help catch the wild animals," he added. The forest department officials are coming to Nagpur airport on Tuesday for launching a "wild animal" hunt operation.
27/06/11 Pradip Kumar Maitra/Hindustan Times

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