Operation Maitri: Air Force planes airlift over 500 Indians from Nepal

April 26, 2015 12:10

Over 500 passengers including many infants arrived in Delhi by Air Force planes late Saturday night and in the early hours today after being evacuated from Nepal.

The first Indian Air Force plane to arrive from Kathmandu was a C-130J Super Hercules carrying 55 passengers, including four infants, at around 10:45 p.m yesterday, followed by a C-17 Globemaster III, a little after midnight with 101 passengers and an infant. In the early hours today, an IL-76 aircraft brought back 152 passengers. Soon after - around 4.45 a.m - another C-17 Globemaster III returned with 247 Indians.

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