Bangalore:A private aircraft carrying Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Finance Minister P Chidambaram made an emergency landing on Thursday at the airport here following a technical problem.

Gandhi and Chidambaram were flying in a Falcon aircraft to Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, sources at the Bengaluru International Airport said.

Gandhi is scheduled to address a public meeting at Erode later this evening.

An aircraft from the state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited was sent to the airport for taking them to Coimbatore, they said.
Source : DNA