MIRACLE ESCAPE Pilot's presence of mind saves MP CM & Guv.MADHYA Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan Shivraj Singh Chauhan (Hindi: शिवराज सिंह चौहान) (born 5 March, 1959) is the current chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. He replaced Babulal Gaur as the chief minister on 29 November, 2005. and governor Rameshwar Thakur had a close shave on Tuesday when their plane nearly collided with two jeeps on the runway at Gwalior airport. The pilot of the aircraft aborted the landing and pulled up in the nick of time to safety. The state- owned, eight- seater plane, flying in Chauhan and Thakur from Bhopal, was descending for touchdown at Gwalior's Rajmata Vijay Raje Scindia Airport when the pilot spotted the jeeps. The incident took place minutes before President Pratibha Patil landed at the same airport to participate in an Indian Air Force ( IAF (Internet Application Framework) A suite of software development technologies from Ross Systems, Inc., Atlanta, GA (www.rossinc.com) that is the backbone of its iRenaissance Suite. Meta-data driven, IAF comprises a . ) event. Chauhan and Thakur too were flying in to attend the event. " The plane carrying Chauhan and Thakur avoided colliding with the two vehicles which had reportedly entered the runway just before the aircraft was to land," chief secretary Rakesh Sahni said. However, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal air chief marshal Noun a very senior officer in an air force P. V. Naik told mediapersons in Gwalior that a dog had strayed on to the runway and the two vehicles with personnel were sent to shoo it away. The air traffic controller was aware of it and the VIP plane was told to abort the landing, the IAF chief said. The jeeps reportedly belong to the IAF, which operates its base from this airport. " It was about 100 feet from the ground when the landing was aborted. For the next 10 minutes we were in the air," said S. K. Mishra, the chief minister's secretary who was onboard. Senior state government officials blamed the IAF and the ATC ATC Air Traffic Control ATC Average Total Cost ATC Certified Athletic Trainer ATC At the Center (Hartford, Maine retreat center) ATC Applied Technology Council ATC All Things Considered for shoddy coordination. The incident drew criticism from the state government. The chief secretary asked the defence secretary and the aviation ministry to investigate. The near- hit took place a few minutes before the arrival of President Patil at the air force terminal inside the airport. Patil conferred the Presidential Standards to two combat units of the IAF -- No. 47 Squadron and Tactics and Air Combat Development Establishment ( TACDE) -- at an impressive presentation parade held at the Gwalior airbase. The Presidential Standards were received in the presence of the IAF chief by commanding officer of No. 47 Squadron ( Black Archers) Wing Commander Vikas Sharma and commodore commandant Air Vice- Marshal Arup Raha, and by Commandant TACDE Group Captain Surat Singh and commodore commandant Air Marshal S. Mukerji respectively. An impressive parade comprising air warriors from both the units as well those from the Gwalior airbase followed the presentation. It was followed by a flypast fly·past n. Chiefly British A flyover, as by military aircraft. Noun 1. flypast - a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground fly-by, flyover that saw the IAF's frontline fighters fly by. Patil later interacted with the air force personnel. At the event, Air Chief Marshal Naik formally announced the proposed flight of the President on a Su- 30 MKI MKI Mark 1 MKI Medical Knowledge Institute MKI Missing Kids International MKI Mabuchi-Kohno-Imai (multiuser detection scheme) at Pune airbase on November 25. anup.dutta@mailtoday.in Copyright 2009 India Today Group. All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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