IAF helicopters conduct trial landing, take-off on emergency landing strip in south Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Apr 2 (PTI: The Indian Air Force’s Chinook, Mi-17 and ALH helicopters landed on a stretch of the national highway linking Kashmir with the rest of the country as part of an Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) drill, the first such exercise in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday.
According to officials, two US-manufactured Chinook, one Russian-made Mi-17 and two Advance Light helicopters (ALH) landed on the Wanpoh-Sangam stretch of the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in the early hours of Tuesday.
Work on the 3.5-km emergency landing strip was started in 2020 and completed late last year as part of a programme initiated by the IAF along with the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for the creation of ELFs at different locations across the country.
