A private chopper carrying six persons, including two pilots, made an emergency landing near a village in Maharashtra's Pune district due to poor visibility as a result of fog, police said on Tuesday, reported the PTI.

The incident occurred on August 15 and the helicopter took off again in 15 minutes, they said.

The chopper belonging to a city-based builder was flying to Mumbai when the pilots were forced to land it on a roadside near Saltar village in Mulshi tehsil around 3 pm, an official from Pune rural police said, as per the PTI.