Mid air scare on CM's flight
Saturday 4 July 2009

It was some scary moments for Chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan, 2 other cabinet ministers, along with over 130 passengers who were on an Indian airlines flight travelling from Kochi to Delhi, when the flight developed a mid air engine failure forcing it to land down at Nagpur. 

The passengers were then taken to Delhi in an another plane. However the aircraft is said to be a new one and its pilot also expressed that such an incident was rare for a new aircraft. Later the Chief Minister praised the pilot for handling the situation wisely, and said the pilot let them know about the engine failure only after landing.
-- MP