MP Govt Aircraft Carrying Remdesivir Drug Crash-Lands At Gwalior Airport, Pilot Co-pilot Suffer Injury

Gwalior district Superintendent of Police Amit Sanghi the incident took place around 8.30 PM at Gwalior's Maharajpura airport during landing and the plane skidded off the runway a little.

Gwalior: Due to some technical snag, a Madhya Pradesh government aircraft carrying a stock of anti-viral drug Remdesivir crash-landed at Gwalior airport on Thursday evening. Gwalior district Superintendent of Police Amit Sanghi told news agency PTI that the pilot and co-pilot suffered minor injuries. However, Captain Saeed Majid Akhtar and his fellow pilot Shivshankar Jaiswal were taken to Jaya Arogya Hospital for a check-up. The employee who had come to collect the Remdesivir injections was also injured.

According to the SP, the incident took place around 8.30 PM at Gwalior’s Maharajpura airport during landing and the plane skidded off the runway a little. However, the consignment of Remdesivir the plane was carrying was safe.

In view of the shortage of Remdesivir injections which are being widely used for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, the state government has deployed its aircraft for the medicine’s transportation.