Alliance Air's aircraft overshoots runway at Jabalpur airport; DGCA begins probe
New Delhi/Jabalpur, Mar 12: An Alliance Air flight from Delhi carrying 55 passengers overshot the runway while landing at the Jabalpur airport on Saturday afternoon, officials of aviation regulator DGCA said.
None of the passengers or crew members were injured, they said, adding that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has started an investigation.
The Delhi-Jabalpur flight was operated using an ATR-72 aircraft, they mentioned.
It departed from Delhi at around 11.30 AM and landed in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh around 1.15 PM.
There were 55 passengers and five crew members on board and they safely disembarked after the incident without any injuries, they said.
The airport at Dumna, where the incident took place, is located around 21 km from Jabalpur city.
Airport director Kusum Das told PTI that operations at the airport have been suspended for four to five hours.
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India bans sugar exports till Sept 30
New Delhi (PTI): India has banned the export of sugar till September 30 this year, according to a government notification.
The notification issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) on May 13 said this order does not apply to sugar being exported to the European Union and the US under the tariff rate quota scheme.
The order is also not applicable to the shipments under the advance authorisation scheme, government-to-government exports and consignments already in the physical export pipeline.
"The export policy of Sugar (Raw Sugar, White Sugar and Refined Sugar)... is amended from 'Restricted' to 'Prohibited' with immediate effect till September 30, 2026, or until further orders, whichever is earlier," the DGFT said.
