Pakistan helped in Operation Ganga: Pakistan provided direct air route for the return of Indians from Ukraine, ATC also supported

India is engaged in evacuating students trapped in Ukraine amid Russia’s attack. Pakistan is helping India in this. Students are coming to India by Air India flight. The pilot said that in view of the serious situation in Ukraine, everyone is helping each other.

Indian students are being brought to India via Romania and Hungary. An Air India flight AI-1942 from Bucharest, Romania reached Delhi today. This flight was operated as a special charter flight. Captain Achint Bhardwaj, the pilot of this aircraft, said that all Air Traffic Control (ATC) including Pakistan have supported the evacuation mission.

pakistan gave direct air route
Captain Bhardwaj said, the interesting thing is that we were supported by all ATC networks from Romanian to Delhi, from Tehran to Pakistan. Pakistan also gave us direct air route without asking any reason. This also saved time. We don’t fly via Romania but there was good coordination between ATC and the government.

Rescue of Indians under Operation Ganga
A total of 709 students have been rescued from Ukraine under Operation Ganga so far. 240 Indian nationals have also taken off from Budapest, Hungary. Earlier on Saturday, the first flight from Romania reached Mumbai carrying 219 Indian students. Five pilots, 14 cabin crew, three aircraft engineers and two security personnel were deployed for the special flight to Romania.

The plane was made to land in the storm
Recently, Indian pilot of Air India, Anchit Bhardwaj, surprised everyone by making a safe and bold landing of the flight in the severe storm that hit London.

Jyotiraditya Scindia and V Muraleedharan welcomed
Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan welcomed the Indian nationals safely evacuated from Ukraine at the Delhi airport.