New Delhi: A private jet to Karnataka carrying Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley made an emergency landing at New Delhi airport on Monday morning, sources said. The leaders were on their way to campaign for the May 5 Assembly elections in the state.
Pilot of the aircraft informed Air traffic control (ATC) of technical issue and returned back to the airport. The jet, owned by Eon, was a nine-seater challenger aircraft. Aviation aircrafts like this one are like chartered planes that can be hired for private travel; they are not commercial aircrafts.
