Breaking News: IAF Mirage-2000 jet lands on Yamuna Expressway

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So a scheduled landing is being turned into emergency landing.What's the Axact reason behind the poor journalistic skills.

 

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At present, countries such as Germany, Poland, Sweden, South Korea, Taiwan, Finland, Switzerland, Poland, Singapore, Czechoslovakia and Pakistan have dedicated stretches on their expressways and highways for airplanes to land and take off in case of an emergency.

IAF jet lands successfully on Yamuna expressway - The Times of India

There is no country called Czechoslovakia! Are these indian newspapers still living in 80s or earlier 90s?

 

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Few photos released by MOD:

The IAF has been considering the use of national highways for emergency landing by fighter aircraft.

This capability was demonstrated by IAF on May 21, 2015 by a Mirage-2000 aircraft which got airborne from one of the IAF bases in Central India. All facilities like make shift Air Traffic Control, safety services, rescue vehicles, bird clearance parties and other requirements were set up by IAF personnel from Air Force Station Agra. Thereafter, in coordination with the District Magistrate and SP of Agra and Mathura, necessary tie up was carried out for activation of the selected stretch. The aircraft made a practice approach on the highway, coming down to a height of 100 mtrs before landing off the next approach. The operations were conducted with active support from the government of Uttar Pradesh, Yamuna Expressway Authority, Toll authorities of JP Infratech and Civil Police.

The IAF has plans to activate more such stretches on highways in the future.

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It looks very nice

 

[monitor]

reading breaking news at first i though mirrage-2000 have follows the path of SU-30mki in assam anyway India is following Pakistan path by turning road into runway .

 

[Major Shaitan Singh]

 

[Sinnerman108]

Good to see Hindu-stan finally getting there.

So they did this with Mirages or bisons too ?

 

[Suman]

reading breaking news at first i though mirrage-2000 have follows the path of SU-30mki in assam anyway India is following Pakistan path by turning road into runway .

pakistan is in dire need of it, India doesn't need it, still for safe side we are doing it

 

[OrionHunter]

Good! Now there'll be dozens of temporary airstrips all over from where air ops can be conducted with the enemy having no clue from where aircraft are operating from during war.

This is an excellent security, surprise and deception measure! I believe a test flight at night is also being contemplated on the Expressway.

Here's an example of a hangar next to a highway in Sweden...

 

[Suman]

Good! Now there'll be dozens of temporary airstrips all over from where air ops can be conducted with the enemy having no clue from where aircraft are operating from during war.

This is an excellent security, surprise and deception measure! I believe a test flight at night is also being contemplated on the Expressway.

Here's an example of a hangar next to a highway in Sweden...

awesome

 

[OrionHunter]

So a scheduled landing is being turned into emergency landing.What's the Axact reason behind the poor journalistic skills.

I would need to ask Arnab Goswami that!

 

[GORKHALI]

reading breaking news at first i though mirrage-2000 have follows the path of SU-30mki in assam anyway India is following Pakistan path by turning road into runway .

Desh badal gaya,pakistaniyat nahi gayi. Why India follows Pakistan when this practice is available since ages in western nations ?

 

[Suman]

I like Arnab Goswami I am fan

 

[kakathiya]

Other difficult landings of Indian air force
IAF C 130 J-30 Super Hercules makes a historic landing at Daulat Beg Oldi

Mi-26 Indian Air Force landed at the airfield at an altitude of 11,660 feet in Kedarnath.

US air force landing
A C-130 Hercules lands on the A29 Autobahn near Ahlhorn during military exercise 'Highway 84'
can Indian air force try this?

 

[OrionHunter]

I like Arnab Goswami I am fan

 

[kṣamā]

If I am not mistaken when Pakistan tried this kind of stuff on their expressways, someone from IAF said that IAF pilots regularly take off from the taxiways which are quarter the width of normal runways. Not able to find the article but it was there somewhere.