KOLKATA: Flights arriving at Kolkata airport during a 30-minute window on Saturday afternoon will be kept on hold and guided away from the Maidan to ensure that Indian Air Force paratroopers participating in a skydiving exercise don’t face any possible danger.
Initially scheduled on December 16 to commemorate Vijay Diwas that honours martyrs in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, the programme was pushed back after chief of defence staff Bipin Rawat died in a helicopter crash on December 8. On Saturday, a scaled down event will be held with Akash Ganga, the IAF sky diving team, putting up a show.
