Tiruchirappalli (Tamil Nadu) (PTI): A private trainer aircraft made an emergency landing on the national highway in Tamil Nadu’s Pudukkottai district after its windshield cracked mid-flight following a technical snag, police said on Friday.

Both occupants - a pilot and a trainee - escaped unhurt, the police official said.

The aircraft, a Cessna 172 belonging to a Kerala-based private flight training company was flying from Salem airport to Karaikudi in Sivaganga district on November 13, when the pilot noticed a crack in the front windshield around 12.45 pm.

"The single-engine Cessna 172 skyhawk made an emergency landing on the Trichy-Pudukkottai highway near Narthamalai. No one on the ground was hurt either," the official said.

Following the landing, the crew informed the aviation firm

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