On the advice of the Civil Aviation Department of Ladakh, the Indian Air Force (IAF) provided an IL-76 plane that took 193 people from Jammu to Leh.
An official spokesperson said that the Indian Air Force flew as many as 275 people between the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Wednesday.
Because of bad weather and the recent closure of the Srinagar-Leh national highway, the AN-32 Kargil Courier couldn’t help the people who were stuck in Jammu and Srinagar.
On the advice of the Civil Aviation Department of Ladakh, the Indian Air Force (IAF) sent an IL-76 plane to take 193 people from Jammu to Leh. The plane carried 193 passengers. While 57 people were flown from Srinagar to Kargil in two flights on an AN-32.
An IAF official said that a B-3 helicopter took 15 extra passengers from Kargil to Srinagar, and an AN-32 flight took 10 stranded passengers from Kargil to Jammu.
The spokesperson also said that the airports in Jammu, Srinagar, Kargil, and Leh had liaison officers and assistant liaison officers who helped travellers.
The stranded passengers thanked the Indian Air Force, the divisional administration, the civil aviation department in Ladakh, and the district administration in Kargil for making the airlift possible.
In January, a chartered flight from Moscow to Goa had to make an emergency landing in Jamnagar, Gujarat, because of a major bomb threat. The Indian Air Force (IAF) was able to stop the bomb threat.
When agencies heard about the possible bomb threat on the Russian Azhur aircraft, they turned on security systems right away. But the IAF had trouble because there were 236 people on the chartered flight who had to be evacuated safely and they only had 50 minutes to do it.
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