Training aircraft makes hard landing at Maharashtra’s Solapur airport, video shows plane stuck on runway

The hard landing incident happened when the student pilot was doing her solo cross country solo flight.

A training aircraft made a hard landing at Maharashtra’s Solapur airport on Thursday, following which it was stuck on the runway. No casualties have been reported in the incident.

Screengrab of a video showing the training plane stuck angularly at the runway.

The hard landing incident happened when the student pilot was doing her solo cross-country flight. “Lady student pilot was doing her cross-country solo flight and she had a hard landing and the aircraft was stuck on the runway. No one was injured,” Karan Mann of the Redbird Aviation Training Academy said.

A purported video of the incident shows the aircraft, a Tecnam P Mentor, stuck at an acute angle, with a medical team, fire brigade personnel and security officials taking stock of the situation. An ambulance and a fire engine were also seen at the spot.