Gandhi’s Aircraft Makes Emergency Landing in Moscow
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s Boeing 707 made an emergency landing in Moscow early today after it developed engine trouble on a flight to New Delhi, Indian officials said.
Gandhi was traveling home from Mexico City, where he had attended a meeting of six world leaders on disarmament issues, and had made a stopover in Prague, Czechoslovakia, the officials said.
After takeoff from Prague, a fire warning light went on in the plane’s No. 3 engine and the flight crew had to shut it down. The plane landed in Moscow about 1:15 a.m., the officials said.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail S. Kapitsa went to the airport to meet Gandhi and provided him with a Soviet aircraft to make the trip home, the officials said. Gandhi’s plane remained in Moscow for repairs.
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