At least four other flights supposed to land between 12 noon and 1 pm were asked to make rounds in the sky and landed after 1 pm. “According to PM’s security officers, the minimum quantity of fuel, required when VVIP is travelling, was not there in the chopper,” an airport source said. From INS Adyar, the PM was to travel by road to Rajaji Hall to pay tributes to former TN CM.From INS Adyar, the PM was to travel by road to Rajaji Hall to pay tributes to former Jayalalithaa.02 pm on Tuesday.It took another one hour for IAF to get ready with required fuel and Modi took off at around 1.As the PM was waiting inside the aircraft, flight carrying Kerala Governor Justice P Sathasivam, CM Pinarayi Vijayan, former CM Ommen Chandy and opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala was diverted to Coimbatore while many other flights were forced make rounds in the sky.According to police sources, Modi arrived at the Old Airport at around 12.

This resulted in diversion of Indigo Airlines from Thiruvananthapuram, in which Kerala governor and politicians were traveling to Coimbatore airport.The IAF helicopter crew tried to tell PM’s high profile guards that there was enough fuel to go and come back to INS Adyar near Marina beach, they were not convinced and insisted on fuel filling.. Because of the presence of PM’s aircraft, the primary runway was not given to commercial aircrafts due to security reason.Eight flights, which were to take off during the time, had to wait till PM’s helicopter left the airport to INS Adyar. Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays his last respects to Tamil Nadu's former Chief Minister Jayaram Jayalalithaa at Rajaji Hall in Chennai.

Kerala governor and CM with political leaders from that state returned from Coimbatore and landed in Chennai by 3 pm and rushed to Rajaji Hall to pay respects to Jayalalithaa. Security personnel accompanying the PM went and checked the chopper as a routine exercise found that there was not enough fuel in the helicopter. The helicopter on which he was double color injection molding machine Manufacturers to travel to INS Adyar was kept ready in bay number 6. (Photo: PTI) Chennai: In what seems to be a major faux pas at Chennai airport on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was forced to sit inside the IAF aircraft for nearly one hour after he landed at 12 noon on his way to pay tributes to Jayalalithaa, because the helicopter which was supposed to take him to INS Adyar did not had enough fuel.04 pm from the Old Airport to INS Adyar