Sukhoi to escort AI’s new Boeings

New Delhi: Months after Kingfisher got the A-380 here on its second birthday bash, Air India will bring the Boeing 777-200 LR to India in VVIP style.
The plane will be escorted by three fighter planes to Delhi that will tail it just after it enters Indian airspace from Seattle. And Indian Air Force is learnt to have offered its most advanced fighter, Sukhoi, to do the honour for AI’s plane.
Sources said DGCA has given a very strict permission for this special escort flight. ‘‘All planes must remain in visual contact of each other. If owing to bad weather this can’t happen, the Boeing 777 will have to fly alone to Delhi,’’ said sources.
26/07/07 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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Categories: Air India Jul 2007, New Jul 2007