The helicopter pilot mistook the pitch for the landing field
The game was in full swing, anything else could happen, but no one expected it. The amazed players first heard the roar of the engine, and after a while they saw a helicopter, going down for landing… on their pitch. The pilot was confused by the big ones ”H” painted on the turf. The Indian press reports about the unusual landing. A helicopter pilot disrupted a cricket match on one of the pitches in the state of Himachal Pradesh in northwest India. Great ”H” on the pitch, which the pilot mistook for the landing pad, is the first letter of the local team name. The unexpected appearance of a helicopter during the match forced players to immediately evacuate the field and interrupted the game. – He landed suddenly. Nobody knew, what's happening. Chaos everywhere, everyone was running, to hide somewhere – tells the newspaper ”Hindustan Times” team manager from Punjab, a state adjacent to Himachal Pradesh. Only after half an hour, the red pilot flew away from shame and the match could be continued. The machine belonged to a private carrier.
