Kolkata, March 28 -- A day after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's flight faced air turbuence following bad weather, Home Minister Amit Shah was also forced to remain airborne over Kolkata due to severe weather conditions, delaying his landing on Friday night.
The aircraft was scheduled to land at Kolkata airport at around 11:40 pm, but inclement weather prevented a safe landing.
It entered Kolkata airspace at approximately 12:25 am and circled for nearly 55 minutes.
Sources said the aircraft even veered towards the Krishnanagar side before returning. It finally landed safely around 1:20 am.
Owing to the Model Code of Conduct in West Bengal, Shah did not travel by his usual BSF aircraft and instead arrived in a smaller private plane, whi...