India, Jan. 10 -- Six people, including the pilot and co-pilot of a nine-seater private aircraft, were injured after it crash-landed in Rourkela on Saturday afternoon.

Officials said the IndiaOne Airlines aircraft made an emergency landing in farmland near Katibandha Kansara in Rourkela at around 1.30 pm after it developed a technical snag.

"It is to inform that India One Air type of aircraft (Caravan 208), bearing registration VT-KSS, was flying from Bhubaneswar to Rourkela. It departed at 12:27 hours. It had two pilots and four passengers. The aircraft force-landed at a place near Jalda. The pilots ensured a safe landing, due to which lives have been saved," the Odisha government said in a statement.

The single-engine aircraft had fl...