Badal’s helicopter makes emergency landing in Punjab

October 2nd, 2009 CHENNAI - A Chennai-Coimbatore Jetlite flight with Home Minister P. Chidambaram on board made an emergency landing at Chennai airport.

September 15th, 2009 MUMBAI - A Mumbai to Bangalore Kingfisher Airlines flight had to make an emergency landing at Mumbai Airport soon after take-off after its landing gear malfunctioned on Tuesday. Preliminary reports quoting sources said that Kingfisher Flight IT 103, which was carrying 98 passengers headed for Bangalore reported a gear malfunction soon after take off to Air Traffic Control (ATC).

September 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An Air India flight had to make an emergency landing at the Indira Gandhi international airport in the national capital on Thursday, after its pilot reported a technical snag. According to reports, the AI flight 3307 from Tokyo to Delhi landed safely in the airport.

September 9th, 2009 HISAR - Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda's helicopter today made an emergency landing here due to bad weather. District administration officials confirmed that the helicopter carrying Hooda, who was flying from New Delhi to Muktsar in Punjab, landed in Hisar on Wednesday afternoon.

September 1st, 2009 HYDERABAD - A tragedy was averted after a Delhi-bound Indigo Airlines aircraft made an emergency landing here on Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock. The plane had to made the landing after smoke was noticed coming out of the aircraft.

August 22nd, 2009 CHENNAI - A Singapore-Chennai flight had to make an emergency landing ay Chennai airport on Saturday after one of its rear tyres burst. According to preliminary reports, all 132 passengers and crew on board Flight IC 556 were safe.

August 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Vadodara-bound Jet Airways plane made an emergency landing here on Tuesday after it developed some technical snag. The airplane 9W 2601, which took off at 5.30 p.m.

July 13th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - An Indian Air Force training aircraft made an emergency landing in the fields of a Punjab village Monday following a technical snag in its engine, police said. The aircraft that flew from the Bathinda air force station, some 250 km from here, was on its trial round.

July 13th, 2009 MUKTSAR - A microlight aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Monday made an emergency landing on Muktsar-Bhatinda road in Punjab's Muktsar District following a technical snag in its engine. According to police, pilot Gurpreet Singh Gill is safe.

June 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An Indian Airlines flight - IC 942 - had to make an emergency landing here on Monday shortly after take off for Hyderabad. The plane developed a technical snag while in flight.

April 16th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Two Assam ministers had a miraculous escape Thursday as the helicopter in which they were travelling for election campaigning made an emergency landing at the Guwahati airport following a major technical snag. Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain, along with Assam Youth Congress president Pijush Hazarika, were returning to Guwahati after addressing an election meeting in Nagaon district of eastern Assam when the four-seater helicopter developed a snag mid-air.

April 11th, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had a narrow escape Saturday as the helicopter he was travelling in had to make an emergency landing after developing a technical snag, an official said. The chief minister was on his way to Rampur village in the state's Satna district to address an election meeting for Ganesh Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Satna constituency, when the chopper developed a snag, Satna district collector Sukhbeer Singh told IANS over telephone.

March 26th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Setting up the stage for a direct battle of the two leading political dynasties in Punjab, the ruling Akali Dal Thursday announced Harsimrat Kaur, wife of Akali Dal president and Punjab's Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, as the party's candidate for the Bathinda Lok Sabha seat. She will face Congress candidate Raninder Singh, son of former chief minister Amarinder Singh.

January 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - An alert was declared at the Delhi airport Sunday evening after a plane on a domestic flight requested an emergency landing apparently to contain a unruly passenger on board, official sources said. Indigo flight E-664 from Goa to Delhi landed at 5.15 p.m.

January 16th, 2009 KOLKATA - A Jet Airways flight had to make an emergency landing at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport here after its engine caught fire Saturday. All passengers were safe, an airport official said.