Indian Army’s Central Command Chief lt Gen BS Negi and around a half dozen military officers had a narrow escape on Saturday when all the three tyres of an Indian Air Force ‘Avro’ plane, they were aboard, burst while landing at Jolly Grant Airport, Dehradun. Pilot’s timely action averted a major incident on the runway of the airport. The flight was on its way from lucknow to Dehradun.
The flying and landing of several flights from Jolly Grant Airport was cancelled till evening on Saturday following the incident. Around ten flights land and fly here daily for various places like Mumbai Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kolkata and Delhi.
Jolly Grant police post in-charge Arun Tyagi said that the incident occurred at around 9.20 am and the plane got stranded on the runway due to all three tyres having burst. CISF personnel deputed swung into action and all the passengers and the crew, including the pilot, came out safely from the plane.
All emergency procedures were pressed in and the flights at the small airfield that offers services to the Capital of Uttarakhand were suspended temporarily. Nobody was injured in the incident, Tyagi said.