Through PTI
MUMBAI: The primary Air India flight wearing 219 Indian evacuees from Ukraine landed on the Mumbai airport from Bucharest, Romania, on Saturday night, ATC assets stated.
Operated with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, Air India flight AI-1944 touched down the runway at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj World Airport (CSMIA) right here at 7.50 pm, they stated.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal was once on the airport to obtain the Indian nationals getting back from war-hit Ukraine on their arrival.
The Air India flight had left from Mumbai for Bucharest at 3.38 am Saturday and landed there at round 10.45 am (Indian Same old Time). It departed for Mumbai at 1.55 pm (IST).
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The Ukrainian airspace has been closed for civil airplane operations because the morning of February 24 and subsequently, the evacuation flights are working out of Bucharest and Budapest.
Indian nationals who reached the Ukraine-Romania border via highway had been taken to Bucharest via Indian executive officers in order that they may be able to be evacuated within the Air India flights.
Round 16,000 Indians, principally scholars, have been stranded in Ukraine, Overseas Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla had stated on February 24.
The gap between Kyiv and the Romanian border checkpoint is roughly 600 km and it takes any place between 8 hours to 11 hours to hide it via highway.
The Indian embassy in Ukraine on Friday stated it was once operating to ascertain evacuation routes from Romania and Hungary.
Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had previous within the day stated on Twitter that AI1944 with “219 Indian nationals has taken off from Romania”.
“Relating to evacuation of Indian nationals from Ukraine, we’re making growth. Our groups are operating at the flooring round-the-clock. I’m in my opinion tracking,” he added.
Air India will perform extra flights on Saturday to Bucharest and Hungarian capital Budapest to evacuate Indians stranded in Ukraine.
Previous to the closure of the Ukrainian airspace, Air India had operated a flight to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on February 22 that introduced 240 folks again. It had deliberate to perform two extra flights on February 24 and February 26 however may just now not because the Russian offensive started on February 24 and the Ukrainian airspace was once as a result close down.