Air India flight to Kabul cancelled as airspace closed

National carrier Air India cancelled its flight operations on the DelhiKabulDelhi route on Monday as the airspace over the Afghan capital city was closedAccordingly a NOTAM notice to airmen was issued advising incoming and transiting civilian aircraft to reroute before entering the Kabul airspaceThe flight was originally scheduled to depart at 830 am however Air India which was monitoring the situation decided to operate the flight at 1230 pmAccording to the Notam the airspace has been released to the military and that civil aircraft entering the airspace will not get assistance from Kabul ATCBesides hampering evacuation efforts the latest development will impact international operations to and from South Asia using the Afghanistan airspaceIt was expected that this crucial flight service will be used for evacuation of Indians from the capital of the wartorn Afghanistan which saw Taliban cease power over much of the countryOn Sunday evening an Air India flight with 129 passengers from Kabul landed in DelhiAlso read Air India diverts ChicagoDelhi flight to avoid lsquouncontrolledrsquo Afghan airspaceThe AI 244 had taken off at 606 pm on Sunday from the Kabul airport even as the Taliban reached the Afghan capital and were on the verge of taking powerExpressing despair over the state of affairs in Afghanistan a woman who deboarded the flight told reporters in Delhi on Sunday that the world has abandoned AfghanistanOur friends are going to get killed she addedThe passengers also included diplomats and security officials posted in the Indian Embassy in KabulThe situation in Afghanistan worsened further on Sunday as Kabul was taken over by the TalibanFurther President Ashraf Ghani along with National Security Adviser Hamdullah Muhib and head of the administrative office of President Fazel Mahmood Fazli left Afghanistan for TajikistanSome lawmakers have also fled to Islamabad including Speaker of Afghan Parliament Mir Rahman Rahmani Younus Qanuni Muhammad Muhaqeq Karim Khalili Ahmad Wali Masoud and Ahmad Zia Masoud Afghan media reportedSince the US troops have pulled out from the warravaged country Taliban in the past few weeks has been bringing provinces under its control raising concerns globallyAs the situation in Afghanistan continued to turn from bad to worse with intense fighting between security forces and the Taliban several Indian nationals including diplomats have been evacuated from the countryThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever