After emergency landing, billionaire Wang Jianlin's plane returns to China

AGARTALA: A chartered plane, which had landed in emergency condition at Agartala airport on Thursday last with Chinese realty baron and head of the multi-billion Dalian Wanda group Wang Jianlin along with four businessmen, has returned to China yesterday, police said.

Jianlin and four businessmen had returned to Beijing on Friday in another chartered flight, but the faulty plane and its four crew members remained at the Agartala airport for repair.

That plane returned yesterday, a police official said.

Jianlin, along with four businessmen and four crew members survived a scare on Thursday last after his private jet developed a snag and landed under emergency conditions in Agartala.

Wang was on his way back to Beijing after completing his business visit to India, during which he announced his plans to invest $5 billion in developing industrial townships in the country.

He was on a four-day visit to India at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Wang, the richest man in China, had stayed at Rajdhani hotel in Agartala when the plane landed in the Tripura capital under emergency conditions.