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First Runway On A 'Sea Bridge' At Lakshadweep's Agatti Airport
December 25 , 2017
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- The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has got green nod to extend Lakshadweep's Agatti Airport by building an RCC platform on the beach and shallow sea.
- The runway will be extended on this platform which is built to connect a sea surrounded separated two land portions
- And the final longer airstrip will allow bigger ATRs to operate on the island.
- If once it completed, the runway will be long enough for ATR-72 to operate.
- At present, only smaller turboprops operate there .
- This project is India’s first successful runway-on-sea bridge. Earlier projects, one for Juhu airport in Mumbai, and the other for Kullu were not found suitable for those places.
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