{"id":572979,"date":"2023-04-29T11:32:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T06:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=572979"},"modified":"2023-04-29T12:57:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T07:27:48","slug":"iaf-pilots-land-aircraft-on-unlit-runway-to-rescue-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-pilots-land-aircraft-on-unlit-runway-to-rescue-121\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF pilots land aircraft on unlit runway to rescue 121"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a daring midnight operation, pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF) landed a plane on a remote airstrip in Sudan to rescue 121 people, including a pregnant woman.<\/p>\n<p>IAF\u2019s special operations plane C-130J planed without runway lights on ground and no navigational landing aids at a small airstrip at Wadi Siedna, about 40 km north of Khartoum.<\/p>\n<p>The 121 people had no means to reach Port Sudan, located a distance of some 850 km from Wadi Siedna.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was carried out on the intervening night of April 27 and 28. The Wadi Siedna airstrip has a degraded surface, with no navigational approach aids or refuelling facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a daring midnight operation, pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF) landed a plane on a remote airstrip in Sudan to rescue 121 people, including a pregnant woman. IAF\u2019s special operations plane C-130J planed without runway lights on ground and no navigational landing aids at a small airstrip at Wadi Siedna, about 40 km north of Khartoum. The 121 people had no means to reach Port Sudan, located a distance of some 850 km from Wadi Siedna. The operation was carried out on the intervening night of April 27 and 28. The Wadi Siedna airstrip has a degraded surface, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,130,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}