Watch: IAF plane carrying Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari conducts mock emergency landing
A Hercules C-130 J IAF plane, carrying Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Roadways Minister Nitin Gadkari and Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat, conducted a mock emergency landing on the Satta-Gandhav stretch of National Highway 925 in Barmer, Rajasthan. The stretch, which will serve as an emergency landing strip for Indian Air Force planes, was inaugurated by the two Union Ministers on Thursday.
NH-925 is India’s first national highway to be used for emergency landing of IAF aircraft. The two ministers also witnessed a Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jet conducting a mock landing on the emergency landing facility.
