Hyderabad, February 6: A Cessna trainee aircraft made a "hard landing" at the Begumpet airport here due to a "malfunction" of its nose wheel on Thursday, police said.

It was a minor incident and no one was injured, they said, adding that following the incident, the runway was briefly closed and subsequently flight operations resumed. IAF Plane Crash in Shivpuri: Mirage 2000 Fighter Aircraft Crashes in Madhya Pradesh, Pilot Safe (Watch Video).

"The aircraft was on a regular training flight and during the landing the front-wheel was slightly bent. The runway was closed for about 30 minutes and it was subsequently cleared, and flight operations resumed," a police official said.

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