A Guwahati-bound aircraft carrying Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma made an emergency landing at Maharaja Bir Bikram (MBB) Airport in Agartala due to bad weather in Guwahati on Sunday.
Tripura Tourism Minister Sushanta Chowdhury rushed to the MBB airport to meet the Assam chief minister.
Later, Chowdhury wrote on Facebook, “After getting information about emergency landing of Assam’s honourable Chief Minister Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma ji’s Guwahati-bound aircraft at Agartala Airport due to bad weather in Guwahati, I rushed to the airport and spent some time with dada (elder brother).”
An official of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) informed that the A320 aircraft, numbered ‘Flight IGO 187’, which was operating from Mohanbari of Dibrugarh in Assam and was scheduled to fly to Guwahati, was diverted to Agartala due to adverse weather conditions at Guwahati.
