India, Aug. 4 -- In an unusual mid-air mix-up, a chartered plane, with Rajasthan chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma on board, landed on the wrong runway in Phalodi last Thursday (July 31).

The landing on the wrong runway led to an investigation by aviation authorities, Times of India reported.

The Dassault Falcon 2000 business jet, which was en route from Delhi, was scheduled to land at the Indian Air Force (IAF) station in Phalodi but touched down at a nearby civil airstrip-just five kilometres from the scheduled destination.

Sources told TOI that the pilots realised the error and the plane quickly made a short hop to the correct airfield at the IAF base minutes after the unexpected landing.

Soon after the major lapse, the Directorate ...