30 April 2022 Current Affairs:
IndiGo is the first airline in Asia to use the GAGAN navigation system to land its aircraft.
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This is a tremendous step forward for Indian Civil Aviation and a definite step toward Aatmanirbhar Bharat. India joins the United States and Japan as the third country to have its own SBAS system.
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Using GPS-aided geo-augmented navigation (GAGAN), which was jointly developed by the Centre-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the Indian Space Research Organisation, the flight arrived at the Kishangarh airport in Rajasthan on Wednesday morning (April 27).