 The Uttar Pradesh government had given a green signal on May 11 to convert a 3 km stretch of the upcoming Agra-Lucknow Expressway into a full-fledged road runway to the air force.Just as the Saifai landings, the IAF kept the operation secret and only took the authorities concerned on board.The IAF had prohibited all kinds of photography—still or video and deployed its photographers and videographers.