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| August 30, 2009 | Badal's helicopter makes emergency landing in Punjab | Chandigarh:
A helicopter, carrying Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh
Badal, was forced to make an emergency landing in Punjab's Ferozepur district
on Sunday after developing a suspected technical snag. Chief Minister's media
advisor Harcharan Bains said the helicopter, Bell 230, was chartered by Punjab
Government, and that pilots experienced some difficulty just before the scheduled
landing in Jalalabad. "Preliminary reports pointed towards a technical fault in
the cyclical control of the helicopter. The pilots ejected some of the fuel of
the chopper before steering the helicopter to an unscheduled landing site," Bains
said. The Government further has referred the incident to the Directorate General
of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for an inquiry and would make a statement on the causes
of the emergency landing only after the DGCA submits its report.
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