A scheduled Air India flight from Delhi to Kabul took off on time from the Capital’s Indira Gandhi National Airport shortly after midday, but the situation on the ground in Afghanistan deteriorated significantly before the plane could land.
The flight, which took two hours and twenty minutes, had to hover for nearly an hour. The Taliban army, which has taken control of the war-torn country, has advanced to the outskirts of Kabul, and Kabul’s air traffic control was unable to assist Air India Flight 243 with landing. The pilot had to turn off the plane’s radar at one point to avoid detection and the risk of being targeted.
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