RUPNAGAR: Hit by a technical snag, a Chetak Chopper of the Indian army with three major rank officer on board had to make an emergency landing at Ban Majra village near Kurali on Thursday at around 11:30 am. None of the crew members was injured during the landing.The chopper had taken off from Pathankot and was on its way to Chandigarh when the pilot complained of a certain technical problem in the flying machine that prompted the officers to take a call to land it in the agricultural fields in Ban Majra. The pilot managed to manoeuvre the chopper away from the 66Kv heavy tension power lines that passed near the spot where the chopper landed.According to the eyewitnesses, the chopper hung in the air for a while, swinging loosely, before it made the emergency landing, which went off smoothly. Having spotted the chopper landing in the fields, a large number of local residents reached the spot, but the area was later cordoned off due to security concerns.The army team immediately sent an SOS to Chandigarh airbase which rushed in a team of technical experts to the coordinates shared by them. Soon, another chopper with members of the engineering wing of the army reached the spot and started attending to the snag.SSP Swapan Sharma said it was just a technical issue that was resolved soon and the chopper took for the Chandigarh at around 1:30 pm.