WATCH VIDEO: AIRCRAFT COMING FROM PAKISTAN, FORCED TO LAND IN INDIA

An Indian Air Force aircraft on Friday successfully intercepted a heavy-cargo plane Antonov AN-12 from Georgia after it deviated from its scheduled route from Karachi to Delhi and entered the Indian airspace from an unauthorised point of access. The aircraft was intercepted by IAF Air Defence aircraft and forced to land at Jaipur airfield.

According to Indian Express, the IAF statement read as "The aircraft entered the Indian airspace from an unscheduled point in north Gujarat. The aircraft did not follow the authorized Air Traffic Services (ATS) route and was not responding to radio calls from Indian controlling agencies.

It neither responded on international distress frequency nor to visual signals during interception, the statement added.

The Ministry further said that when the Air Force officials tried to challenge, the aircraft informed that it was a non-schedule aircraft airborne from Tbilisi (Georgia) for Delhi via Karachi.

#WATCH: Indian Air Force fighter jets force an Antonov AN-12 heavy cargo plane coming from Pakistani Air space to land at Jaipur airport. Questioning of pilots on. pic.twitter.com/esuGbtu9Tl

— ANI (@ANI) May 10, 2019