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Source: BBC News
A fireman took over guiding a plane into landing after air traffic controllers failed to turn up for work at an airport in India, it has emerged.
The fireman, named as Mr Basha, helped the Jet Airways flight land at Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh on 9 January.
The plane was flying from Hyderabad with 60 passengers on board.
Tirupati has no approach radar and pilots rely on air traffic controllers to provide runway and weather information and give landing clearance.
Tirupati airport handles only seven flights a day but is the landing point for visitors to the Tirumala temple, one of Hinduism's holiest shrines.
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