India, Feb. 12 -- An Indian Air Force's (AIF) fighter jet conducted a trial landing at the Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) built along a four-lane highway in Moran in Assam's Dibrugarh on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate the first-of-its-kind emergency landing facility on the bypass in Dibrugarh on February 14.

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the prime minister's aircraft will land on the National Highway and later take off from the four-lane highway airstrip at Moran instead of using the runway at the Chabua Air Force Station.

"His flight will not take off from the airport but from the four-lane highway at Moran. This will be a historic moment for us," Sarma said.

According to the CM, PM Mod...