A Tuticorin-bound private aircraft carrying Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami returned here Friday following a “technical snag,” airport officials said.
Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami was scheduled to travel to Kanyakumari from Tuticorin to attend a government event where Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be present.
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According to airport officials, the pilot of the aircraft detected the technical snag and returned to Chennai.
The chief minister later travelled to Madurai by a different aircraft, they said.
(This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.)
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