IAF starts flypast from Dal Lake to salute COVID-19 workers; transporting medical supplies too

Indian Air Force (IAF) started a flypast to thank and appreciate the COVID-19 warriors on Sunday morning. The flypast started from Srinagar's beautiful Dal lake.

According to the IAF officials, two C-130J Super Hercules special operations transport started their journey from Srinagar and will fly all the way to Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala.

The planes will be showering flower petals on some selected hospitals that have played a key role in treating coronavirus patients.

"The list of hospitals include AllMS, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, GTB Hospital, Loknayak Hospital, RML Hospital, Safdarjang Hospital, Ganga Ram Hospital, Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital, Max Saket, Rohini Hospital, Apollo Indraprastha Hospital, and Army Hospital R&R," the Defence Ministry said in a statement.

These planes are not only doing a flypast to show gratitude but are also carrying medical supplies to be delivered at an airbase. This activity is also being used as apart ofthe training activity of IAF and opportunity flight for transport aircraft and helicopters, which are involved in moving supplies related to the COVID-19 task.

Some IAF choppers, too, showed gratitude by showering flower petals onPolice War Memorial and Delhi hospitals.

More such flypasts will be organised in the future, starting from Srinagar to Thiruvananthapuram, andfrom Dibrugarh in Assam to Kutch in Gujarat.

"Fighter aircraft formations, comprising Sukhoi-30 MKI, MiG-29 and Jaguar will be flying over the Rajpath and will orbit over Delhi and will be visible to the residents from rooftops," said the statement.