No flights can operate from Kabul airport now because the airspace has been closed, officials said meaning no aircraft also can land there. An Air India aircraft tasked to fly to Afghanistan to bring out people will now not be able to go there too, sources have said. A NOTAM or notice to airmen has been issued to mention Kabul airspace has been closed.
“The airspace is closed. How any airline can operate? As of now we don’t seem to be able to operate our 12:30 pm flight to Kabul,” a source in Air India .
Air India flights coming from the US are likely to be re-routed since the Afghan airspace has been closed, sources said. Flights AI-126 (Chicago-New Delhi) and AI-174 (San Francisco-New Delhi) will must re-routed to a Gulf nation to refuel, they said, adding Air India is additionally acting on new routes for flights that may depart later from India to the US.
“There are going to be no commercial flights from Hamid Karzai Airport to forestall looting and plundering. Please don’t rush to the airport,” the Kabul airport authority said, news organization AFP reported.
Chaos unfolded at Kabul airport this morning after thousands of individuals rushed in to require any available flight out of the country led to a desperate situation. Reports said US troops fired within the air to regulate the group. Many men were seen jostling and trying to climb onto a parked aircraft.
The Taliban were up to the mark of Afghanistan after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country and conceded the terrorists had won the 20-year war. The astonishingly quick collapse of the govt., with terrorists taking on the presidential palace on Sunday night, triggered fear and panic within the capital Kabul.
