Pathanamthitta (Kerala), Oct 22: The wheels of the helicopter carrying President Droupadi Murmu for her Sabarimala visit got stuck in a depression on the newly concreted helipad at the Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Pramadam when it landed on Wednesday morning.

After the President left for Pamba by road, visuals on TV channels showed several policemen and fire personnel pushing the helicopter’s wheels out of the small depressions created when it landed on the concrete.

Pathanamthitta District Collector Prem Krishnan said that there were no security concerns regarding the helipad, as otherwise the President’s cavalcade would have returned to Thiruvananthapuram by road.

He said that the helicopter had landed a few feet back from the ‘H’ on the helipad, but admitted that where the wheels t

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