IAF airlifts O2 from Germany to ease Indians’ breathing
Sustaining the tempo of airlifting the much-needed oxygen from abroad, an aircraft of the IAF flew non-stop for 12 hours to bring home oxygen from Frankfurt, Germany. The C-17 transport plane ferried four empty cryogenic containers from there and landed at the Hindan airbase, Ghaziabad.
Similarly, another C-17 aircraft airlifted 450 oxygen cylinders from Brize Norton in the UK to the Chennai airbase in Tamil Nadu. In the past few days, the IAF planes carried out numerous sorties to ferry the containers from Singapore, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates.
An Italian air force transport plane landed here on Monday with a team of medical experts, oxygen generation plant and ventilators to help India fight the pandemic.
