IAF pilots land plane on unlit runway at night in Sudan to rescue 121 Indians
In a daring midnight operation, pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF) landed a plane on remote airstrip in Sudan to rescued 121 people including medical cases and a pregnant woman.
IAF’s special operations plane C-130 J planed without runway lights on ground and no navigational landing aids at a small airstrip at Wadi Siedna, about 40 km north of Khartoum Sudan.
The 121 people had no means to reach Port Sudan located at a distance of some 850 kms from Wadi Siedna.
The operation was carried out on the night of intervening April 27 and 28. Wadi Siedna airstrip has a degraded surface,
