A Georgian An-12 transport aircraft that took off from Karachi bound for New Delhi, was intercepted by Indian Air Force (IAF) fighters on Friday afternoon after it deviated from its flight path.
The plane was forced to land at Saganer International Airport in Jaipur for investigations after it entered Indian air space from an unscheduled point over North Gujarat, the IAF said.
“The aircraft neither responded on international distress frequency nor to visual signals during interception. However, when challenged, the aircraft responded and informed that it was a non-scheduled An-12 aircraft that had got airborne from Tbilisi in Georgia for Delhi via Karachi,” the IAF said in a statement.
