Operation Kaveri: Amid authorities efforts to evacuate its residents from the violence-hit Sudan underneath its ‘Operation Kaveri’, a heartening video has surfaced displaying the Indian Air Force’s Flight Lieutenant Har Raj Kaur Boparai serving to a girl to board the plane in Jeddah.
She is the primary and only woman IAF pilot to fly the C-17 transport plane which might carry over 70 tonnes of load in a single go.
Earlier within the day, an Indian Air Force plane with 246 Indians evacuated from war-torn Sudan landed in Mumbai.
The airplane, which took off from Jeddah round 11 am IST, landed right here at 3.15 pm, an official mentioned. The passengers included at the very least two on wheelchairs.
“Another #OperationKaveri flight comes to Mumbai. 246 more Indians come back to the motherland,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar tweeted.
The first batch of 360 Indians arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday.
“Our efforts to swiftly send Indians back home from Jeddah is paying. 246 Indians will be in Mumbai soon, travelling by IAF C17 Globemaster. Happy to see them off at Jeddah airport,” tweeted Union minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan minutes earlier than the airplane left for Mumbai.
Under ‘Operation Kaveri’, India has been taking its residents in buses from battle zones of Khartoum and different troubled areas to Port Sudan from the place they’re being taken to the Saudi Arabian metropolis of Jeddah in Indian Air Force’s heavy-lift transport plane and Indian Navy’s ships.
The distance between Khartoum and Port Sudan is round 850 km and the journey time by bus varies from 12 hours to 18 hours contemplating the prevailing state of affairs and whether or not the autos are working through the day or evening.
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