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About Airplane emergency landing

Airplane emergency landing (some times also referred as 'priorit landing') is the process in which an airplane (cargo / passenger / military) is made to land at an airport or else where due to an emergency situation. The ground staff of the airport generally gives instructions and directions for a flight to land at a specific airport to resolve the emergency situation. The airport can be the same airport from where it took off, a near by airport to the flight that is in travel or the destination airport itself.

Partial list of airplane emergency landings

October 11, 2008: London-bound Air India flight emergency landing. Forced to return to Delhi after being airborne for 30 minutes as the pilot detected smoke in the cabin.
February 1, 2009: Indigo E 664 Goa-Delhi flight makes emergency landing at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, New Delhi Airport when an inebriated passenger created a major scene on board after getting into a tiff with a flight staff.
June 19, 2009: Arnold Schwarzenegger's flight from Mendota, California made an emergency landing at Van Nuys Airport while on its way to Santa Monica airport after the cockpit filled with smoke.
June 09: Indian Airlines flight IC 942 makes an emergency landing shortly after take off for Hyderabad.
July 09: A New Delhi-bound Air India flight (IC 466) makes an emergency landing at Nagpur's Dr.Ambedkar International Airport following a complaint of technical snag.
September 9, 2009: Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda's helicopter today made an emergency landing here due to bad weather.
September 10, 2009: Air India flight makes emergency landing at the Indira Gandhi international airport in New Delhi after its pilot reported a technical snag.
September 15, 2009: Mumbai to Bangalore Kingfisher Airlines flight makes emergency landing at Mumbai Airport soon after take-off after its landing gear malfunctioned.
October 2, 2009: A Chennai-Coimbatore Jetlite flight with Home Minister P. Chidambaram on board made an emergency landing at Chennai airport.

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Badals helicopter makes emergency landing in Punjab
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Singapore-Chennai flight makes emergency landing in Chennai
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IAFs microlight aircraft makes emergency landing
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