IAF flight encounters two pigs at airport

The IL-76 flight was on a training sortie when it encountered two pigs, earlier suspected to be wild boars, while landing around 12.30 am.

Airport Manager BN Borkar confirmed the incident. “But they were not wild boars; they were domesticated pigs. The landing was normal and the pilot also did not report anything wrong,” he said.

The airport spread over 700 acres has a forest-like growth of vegetation which serves as a breeding ground for animals like cheetals, blue bull and wild boar. The virtual sanctuary has been posing a grave threat to the safety of the passengers using the airport. The first incident involving wild boar had happened in August 2007. On March 8 this year, Indigo’s Pune-New Delhi flight (6E 136) with nearly 135 passengers aboard had crushed a deer on the runway.