IAF effort for Op Ganga
Thursday, 03 March 2022
The second flight of the Indian Air Force C-17 from Budapest landed the Hindan Air Base at Ghaziabad at 5:15 am today. 210 passengers, mostly students, were on board. The flight is part of the Govt of India's massive airlift effort named Op Ganga. Till now, the IAF has brought back a total of 410 passengers from Bucharest and Budapest. The Raksha Rajya Mantri, Shri Ajay Bhatt, was present at the tarmac to welcome back the passengers who were evacuated from Ukraine to neighbouring countries.
Two more IAF flights are enroute from Poland and Romania, and are expected to land at Hindan in the coming few hours.
The IAF C-17 heavy lift transport aircraft have been extensively used for evacuation of stranded citizens of India in the recent past, most notably from Afghanistan. These airplanes have also been utilised to transport oxygen containers in large quantities during the COVID-19 outbreak last year.
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