Alliance Air plane suffers bird hit in Jodhpur

Jodhpur: All the 60 passengers of an Alliance Air Boeing 737 plane, including Supreme Court judge Mr Justice P P Navelkar and senior Congress leader, Mr Abhishek Singhvi, today had a miraculous escape when it suffered a bird hit soon after take off from here and landed at the airport here under emergency conditions.
The IC-7474 flight from Mumbai to Delhi via Jodhpur took off from here at around 17.05 p.m and a vulture hit the turbine of the plane, official sources said.
The pilot immediately decided to make an emergency landing which was successfully executed.
All the passengers as also the six crew members onboard were safe, an Indian Airlines official in Jaipur said.
15/10/06 PTI/Navhind Times

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