{"id":572983,"date":"2023-04-29T11:31:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T06:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=572983"},"modified":"2023-04-29T12:56:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T07:26:59","slug":"iaf-pilots-land-plane-on-unlit-runway-at-night-in-sudan-to-rescue-121-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-pilots-land-plane-on-unlit-runway-at-night-in-sudan-to-rescue-121-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF pilots land plane on unlit runway at night in Sudan to rescue 121 Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>IAF\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>The 121 people had no means to reach Port Sudan located at a distance of some 850 kms from Wadi Siedna.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was carried out on the night of intervening April 27 and 28. Wadi Siedna airstrip has a degraded surface,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s 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 [&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-572983","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\/572983","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=572983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}