Aircraft carrying Sonia makes emergency landing

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A private aircraft carrying Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Finance Minister P Chidambaram made an emergency landing

BANGALORE: A private aircraft carrying Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Finance Minister P Chidambaram made an emergency landing on Thursday at the airport here following a technical problem.
   
Gandhi and Chidambaram were flying in a Falcon aircraft to  Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, sources at the Bengaluru International Airport said.
   
Gandhi is scheduled to address a public meeting at Erode later this evening.
   
An aircraft from the state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited was sent to the airport for taking them to Coimbatore, they said.

Sonia Gandhi and Chidambaram later left in the aircraft sent by HAL, for Coimbatore, the sources said.