Flight stuck, kin wait for body

Jaipur: The MiG-23 was once again in news on Wednesday, this time not for a fatal crash, but for forcing over 80 Jodhpur-bound air passengers and a lady’s mortal remains to travel 350-km by road. The irked passengers created a huge ruckus at the Jaipur airport.
Owing to technical snags, a MiG-23 aircraft was stranded at the Jodhpur air-base forcing the closure of the runway from 11 am to 2 pm, resultantly causing diversion of two Jet Airways flights from Mumbai and Delhi to Jaipur’s Sanganer Airport. The closed runway also delayed the arrival of an Indian Airlines flight from New Delhi.
After the engineering staff failed to correct the technical snags, the IAF fighter craft had to be removed from the runway with a crane.
Jaipur Airport director RK Singh said while the Jet flight from Delhi progressed to Jodhpur after two-and-a-half hours at 3 pm, the second craft, which had come from Mumbai, disembarked 80-odd passengers at Jaipur Airport and flew back to Mumbai four hours later. “The Flight Duty Time Limitation does not permit us to fly further to Jodhpur after such a long delay,” the airline’s pilots said.
29/12/11 Daily News & Analysis/dailybhaskar.com

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