Glitch forces emergency landing of private plane at Bengaluru’s HAL airport

An aircraft owned by a private aviation company made an emergency landing at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Airport on Tuesday, after it developed a landing gear glitch.

No passengers were on board and both the pilots are safe. Sources in HAL said the aircraft landed with the nose wheel “not fully down”. The aircraft – reported to be a fly-by-wire Premier IA aircraft – had taken off for the Kempegowda International Airport and after the glitch was noted, returned to the HAL Airport where it was cleared for an emergency landing.