Dog on Kolkata runway makes Mumbai flight hover in the air

21 July,2009 08:25 AM IST |   |  A Correspondent

An Air-India flight from Mumbai with 115 passengers on board had to hover in the air for sometime before landing as a dog was found in the runway of the N S C Bose International Airport in Kolkata.


An Air-India flight from Mumbai with 115 passengers on board had to hover in the air for sometime before landing as a dog was found in the runway of the N S C Bose International Airport in Kolkata.

Airport sources said the Air Traffic Control (ATC) noticed a dog on the runway and asked the pilot of the plane, which was to land at 9 am, to hover before the runway was cleared of the dog.
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After the airport employees chased the dog out, the ATC told the Air India pilot to land in the airport.

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