600 Kargil passengers airlifted in IL76 to Leh Ladakh. Jammu, 25th April: Indian Air Force (IAF) once again came to the assistance of stranded civilian of Ladakh despite after yesterday IL76 wing engine suddenly wedged due to some technical problem in the engine of IL-76 AT Leh Airport. But today they manage to launched special sortie of an IL76 from Udhampur Jammu to Leh and Leh to Udhampur Jammu and yesterday from Srinagar to Leh and Back on being requisitioned by the Aamir Ali, State Coordinator AN32 Courier Service, said Liaison officer, Jammu Sh. Master Mohd Kazim and Mohd Hassan, Naib Tehsildar DC office Kargil, who’s are currently assigned on special duty as Liaison officers at Jammu. Our correspondent while speaking with the concern Liaison Officer of Jammu Sh. Mohd Hassan. He said total 600 stranded passengers of Kargil were airlifted in IL-76 Indian Air Force plane between Udhampur Jammu-Leh and Srinagar-Leh. He said today 293 passengers including women and children were air lifted both ways in IL-76, he added passengers were airlifted from Jammu to Leh 119 from Leh to Srinagar and 77 similarly from Srinagar to Leh 230 and Leh to Srinagar 77 passenger were uplifted in IL76 yesterday “Subject to the weather Condition, two sorties of AN32 (small aircraft) Kargil Courier have been planned in between Jammu/Kargil and Srinagar/Kargil on 25th April, but due to bad weather in Kargil today, the N-32 Flight operation again Cancelled. The Passengers who travelled today expressed their gratitude to Indian Air Force as well as Chief Executive Councilor, LAHDC Kargil, Asgar Ali Karbalaiee, Sh. Amir Ali, state coordinator for IL-76/N32 for facilitating the airlift of the stranded passengers,” he added. Zoojela-Pass is the only life line to Ladakh region, this High Pass closed every year for more than six month due to heavy snowfall. The only option is left to flying choppers or small aircrafts from Kargil and regular air services from Leh. Two tunnels are being planned - work on first one starts this year, to manage Zoojee La so that Ladakh remains accessible round the year. In this difficult and harsh time the Indian Air force here also playing an important role to uplift the stranded passenger of state from different destination. Air Force Station Jammus commander, chief administrative officer and chief operations officer were present and personally supervised the smooth conduct of the operation at Udhampur, while speaking with Sh. Amir Ali he said, adding the civilians expressed their gratitude to the IAF and the civil administration for ensuring that they would reach their homes safely and speedily. He further said that in the month of March & April a total of 3035 stranded passenger have been airlifted to their respective destinations by the State Government till now. Subject to weather fair the AN 32 Courier Service will operate between Kargil-Jammu and Kargil Srinagar on Monday, he further said. He has asked the passengers to contact their concerned Liaison Officers for further information. Liaison officer Sh. Mohd Hassan, further added while asking what kind of difficulties they need to face during the arrangement of Indian Air force Aircraft for Stranded Passengers and what kind of dealing they need to deal with the stranded passengers. He said following are the main problems comes during arrangement and personally feel need to take early action:- 1. When Indian Air Force convey message to us for aviability and conformation of flight for very next day to Kargil/Leh Ladakh, at that short span of time it is difficult for us to convey the information/message to all the stranded passengers. At that time we need to convey the message to each and every individual passenger by calling throughout mobile phone only. 2. Issuing manual air ticket to every passenger. 3. Due to strict Norms of Indian Air force, as we know that our IAF can fly only for Army in any harsh extreme weather. But in civilian case for their safety and concern they are not taking any risk due to strict norms of IAF. 4. For civilian safety if the weather condition is bad the IAF can’t operate their flight. 5. Similarly there is no any travel insurance available for civilian in IAF, so that’s why the IAF Pilot never taking any risk & fly in extreme bad weather for civilian safety. 6. Indian Airforce IAL can’t able to land in Kargil Airport due to available of short runway, that why instead of Kargil IAL need to Land in Leh Airport. 7. The Airport Authority of India already sanctioned to extend the Kargil Airport runway by 1500ft. But this length is not enough for land any big aircraft in Kargil, even IAL Can’t able to land in such length. 8. The Length of Kargil Airport need to Increase more than 3000ft, so that any Big aircraft can land in Kargil. While further asking the Liaison Officer Jammu said it is all about by teams work together with all Liaison Officers included Srinagar & Kargil Liaison officers & IAF authorities, and they very thankful to the LAHDC Kargil for their adequate support provided all time also the J&K Government & IAF for their tremendous support.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:44:58 +0000
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