“The trial landing exercise has been completed successfully. Two transport aircraft, AN-32 and Dornier, landed,” Jindal told PTI. Jindal said that the 4.1 km-long emergency landing facility on the NH-16 will be available as an option to land aircrafts during wartime.
The exercise was executed twice in a span of two hours, starting from 11 am to 1 pm and to enable it, Bapatla district police diverted traffic from 7:30 am to 1 pm on the highway. The SP said that a few fighter jets, which included a Sukhoi Su-30, also flew by without landing on the facility.