Sri Sri Ravishankar, his two assistants and the pilot were on board the chopper.
They were proceeding to Tiruppur from Bengaluru. When the chopper was flying over the STR, bad weather condtions prompted the pilot to make an emergency landing at Ukiniyam, a tribal hamlet in STR.
After an hour later, the weather conditions cleared and the chopper took off to Tiruppur after getting necessary clearances, reports received here said.
(With UNI inputs)