Coronavirus: Air India flight lands in Wuhan, to fly back 366 Indians
NEW DELHI: The Air India special jumbo jet has landed in Wuhan and will bring back 366 Indians from the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak by early Saturday. The 423-seater AI Boeing 747 had taken off at 1.17 pm from Delhi with five doctors from Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML) hospital with all medicines required for the evacuees and landed there four hours later at 7.46 pm (Wuhan time).
The B747 (VT-ESP) “Ajanta” has four pilots — two commanders Captain Kamal Mohan, Captain S H Reza; and two first officers Captain Sanjay Achalkar and Captain Bhupesh Narain — 15 cabin cabin crew, three engineers, five commercial staff, two security-men and one dispatch official. AI director operations Captain Amitabh Singh is onboard to supervise this special flight. All these people will wear the full protective suit on landing in Wuhan, before opening the aircraft door there,” said an AI official.
