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Sukhoi to escort AI's new Boeings
NEW DELHI: Indian carriers are now pulling out of all stops to showcase state-of-the-art planes they are inducting in their fleets.
Months after Kingfisher got the A-380 here on its second birthday bash, Air India will bring the Boeing 777-200 LR to India in VVIP style.
The plane will be escorted by three fighter planes to Delhi that will tail it just after it enters Indian airspace from Seattle. And Indian Air Force is learnt to have offered its most advanced fighter, Sukhoi, to do the honour for AIs plane.
Sources said DGCA has given a very strict permission for this special escort flight. All planes must remain in visual contact of each other. If owing to bad weather this cant happen, the Boeing 777 will have to fly alone to Delhi, said sources.
The date of this event is yet to be finalised. The plane will reach Delhi on Thursday. But PM Manmohan Singh is going to unveil the National Aviation Company of India (being formed by merging AI and IA) on Saturday at Palam technical area.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...scort_AIs_new_Boeings/articleshow/2234364.cms
NEW DELHI: Indian carriers are now pulling out of all stops to showcase state-of-the-art planes they are inducting in their fleets.
Months after Kingfisher got the A-380 here on its second birthday bash, Air India will bring the Boeing 777-200 LR to India in VVIP style.
The plane will be escorted by three fighter planes to Delhi that will tail it just after it enters Indian airspace from Seattle. And Indian Air Force is learnt to have offered its most advanced fighter, Sukhoi, to do the honour for AIs plane.
Sources said DGCA has given a very strict permission for this special escort flight. All planes must remain in visual contact of each other. If owing to bad weather this cant happen, the Boeing 777 will have to fly alone to Delhi, said sources.
The date of this event is yet to be finalised. The plane will reach Delhi on Thursday. But PM Manmohan Singh is going to unveil the National Aviation Company of India (being formed by merging AI and IA) on Saturday at Palam technical area.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...scort_AIs_new_Boeings/articleshow/2234364.cms
