Crash-Landing Of Remdesivir-Carrying Plane In Madhya Pradesh To Be Probed

COVID-19 India: The plane carrying boxes of Remdesivir injections, used in Covid treatment, had crash-landed around 8:30 pm on Thursday, in which the pilot and co-pilot had suffered minor injuries. The state plane had arrived in Gwalior from Indore.

Aviation experts will conduct a probe into the crash-landing of a Madhya Pradesh government plane carrying a stock of anti-viral drug Remdesivir at Gwalior airport following a technical snag, a senior official said today. The plane had crash-landed around 8:30 pm on Thursday, in which the pilot and co-pilot had suffered minor injuries. "The plane had skidded off the runway at the airport during landing. Aviation experts will probe the incident," Gwalior collector Kaushlendra Vikram Singh told news agency Press Trust of India. Gwalior airport is the civil enclave airport at the Maharajpur Air Force station.