A scrapped plane being transported from Mumbai to Assam got stuck under an overbridge in Bihar’s East Champaran district on Friday, The plane got stuck under Piprakothi bridge in Motihari.

“Prima facie, it appears that the driver of the vehicle misjudged the underneath height of the overbridge as a result, it got stuck beneath the overbridge,” said a police officer.

After two hours of efforts, vehicle carrying the plane was safely extricated and left for its destination.

eyewitnesses said that the plane remained stuck under the bridge for over an hour, leading to heavy traffic snarls on NH-27. The vehicle was extricated by deflating the tyres of the lorry,” an eyewitness said.

A similar incident took place last year in November when the body of an airplane got struck on the underpass of a road near Korisapadu in the Bapatla district of Andhra Pradesh when the plane was en route from Kochi to Hyderabad.