The list of airports not having night landing facility also include airports like Kullu and Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, Bilaspur and Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh, Kalaburagi in Karnataka, Kolhapur and Sindhudurg in Maharashtra and and Ludhiana in Punjab among others.
According to the sources, the chopper was brought back to the base as a precautionary measure after a reported bird hit.
A senior SpiceJet official told a news agency that a SpiceJet B737-800 aircraft was operating from Patna to Delhi. On takeoff, during rotation, the cockpit crew suspected a bird hit on one of the engines.
Indian Army helicopter made a "precautionary" landing in a field in Haryana's Jind district and all the three persons on board are safe
