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Rescued Chennai Passengers Land at HAL Airport, Bengaluru

Dec 6th, 2015 1:02 pm | By | Category: LATEST NEWS

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The AN 32 carrying 40 passengers from Tambaram landed at the HAL airport here today as part of the rescue operation carried out to help the stranded people at Chennai and surrounding areas affected by heavy flooding due to incessant rain in the past few days. “We are happy that HAL airport could be used for the noble mission”, said T. Suvarna Raju, CMD, HAL.

HAL airport is not open for commercial operations since 2008 as new airport opened at Devanhalli. At present HAL airport is used 24×7 for military flying, test flights, chartered and VVIP flights.
Pictures: Rescued passengers from Chennai seen at HAL airport, Bengaluru. Picture, courtesy HAL Airport Services.

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