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Emergency landing for jet carrying BJP brass

Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi
Apr 09, 2013 10:46 AM IST

A private jet carrying senior BJP leaders, including party president Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, had a close shave at Delhi airport on Monday after the aircraft had to make an emergency landing following a technical glitch.

A private jet carrying senior BJP leaders, including party president Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, had a close shave at Delhi airport on Monday after the aircraft had to make an emergency landing following a technical glitch.

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The BJP leaders were flying to Bangalore to address an election rally and the aircraft took off from Indira Gandhi International Airport at 9.20am. Within a few minutes of take off, the pilot detected a glitch in the auto-pilot system of the Challenger aircraft and decided to land back at IGI.

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The aircraft landed safely at 10.40am. The other passengers on board included BJP general secretary Dharmendra Pradhan and joint general secretary (organisation) V Satish, SP Dwivedi, Anand Kumar and Vandana Sharma, apart from three crew members.

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