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Planes on the expressway...
India: military jet lands on the highway for exercise.
Operation involved an french fighter Mirage 2000.
A french fighter-bomber Mirage 2000 of the Indian Air Force (Iaf) landed in the morning on a highway for an exercise which expects use of arterial roads in case of emergency. It has reported the Agency press Pti.
The plane placed after sunrise on the Yamuna Expressway carriageway, a new expressway long 165 Km at six lanes that links New Delhi to Agra, which is the city of the famous Taj Mahal monument.
For this operation, first of this kind in India, it been needed stopping traffic and putting in act security measures expected for landing of a plane, among which vehicle of support and devices against the birds. The landing on the civil road could be need if the military Airport been out of use in certain situations, according the IAF experts.
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