The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has initiated a probe into the emergency landing of a private helicopter carrying JD(U) president Sharad Yadav in a field near Patna yesterday.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has initiated a probe into the emergency landing of a private helicopter carrying JD(U) president Sharad Yadav in a field near Patna yesterday.
The chopper made a precautionary landing near Jakkanpur, three nautical miles from Patna, after the pilot identified a technical problem, official sources said.
No one was injured in the incident, which occured at a time when the DGCA is carrying out a mid-term review of the status of implementation of various measures which state governments should take for safe helicopter operations.
Besides Yadav, others on board were the two pilots, Bihar minister Prem Kumar, secretary to chief minister S Siddharth and Road Department Secretary Pratyay Amrit. They were on their way to Chausa in Madhepura to attend an official function.
Barely five minutes after taking off, the pilot reported the technical problem to the Patna Air Traffic Control and landed the helicopter.
The helicopter belonged to a private company Aryan Aviation which was operating for the Bihar government.
This is the second incident involving a helicopter in two days, the latest being the accident in Arunachal Pradesh in which a crew member of a Pawan Hans chopper fell to his death as the door flung open mid-air early today.
Under the DGCA's annual surveillance programme, all helicopter operations are being subjected to detailed safety audit. The aviation regulator had issued detailed guidelines to all state governments and private operators after the September 2009 chopper crash that claimed the lives of Andhra Pradesh chief minister YSR Reddy and four others.
The DGCA had issued the latest rules or Civil Aviation Requirement on June 2 asking all state governments to implement the various safety requirements within four months.
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