India to send largest military aircraft C-17 Globemaster to carry medical supplies to Wuhan

• India will send a C-17 military transport aircraft to China's Wuhan to evacuate more Indians and deliver a consignment of medical supplies to coronavirus-hit people

• The plane can carry large combat equipment, troops and humanitarian aid across long distances in all weather conditions

• India's national carrier Air India has already evacuated around 640 Indians from Wuhan in two separate flights

New Delhi: India will send a C-17 military transport aircraft to the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to evacuate more Indians and deliver a consignment of medical supplies to China's coronavirus-hit people, official sources said.

The C-17 Globemaster is the largest military aircraft in the Indian Air Force's inventory. The plane can carry large combat equipment, troops and humanitarian aid across long distances in all weather conditions. The sources told PTI that the aircraft will carry a large consignment of medical supplies to China and bring back more Indians from Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic.

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