BHOPAL: Governor Lalji Tandon had a close shave on Saturday. The incident occurred when Tandon was going to Jabalpur in a state plane to receive Vice-president Venkaiah Naidu.
Nevertheless, the plane moved in the runway for a while and suddenly stopped. All efforts to repair the glitches failed as it did not restart.
The plane B-200 has been recently sold to Avion Nautrics Company in Gujarat for Rs 8.90 crore.
A helicopter was made ready to take the Governor to Jabalpur, but he refused to go there by a copter and returned to Raj Bhawan.
Had the plane stopped in the air, there would have been a major accident.
Principal Secretary of aviation, Aniruddha Mukherjee, said the Governor had to go to Jabalpur.
The plane carrying the Governor developed some technical faults and stopped, he said, adding, he refused to go to Jabalpur by a helicopter.
He said the plane was being repaired. An official of Raj Bhawan said had it happened in the air, there would have been a major accident.
