An Air India aircraft from New York is given a water cannon salute on its arrival at Indira Gandhi International airport"s terminal T-3 in New Delhi on Wednesday, 14 July 2010. An Air India plane carrying more than 200 passengers from New York became Wednesday the first commercial flight to land at New Delhi"s new, 2.7-billion-dollar airport terminal. The plane touched down at around 4:40 pm (1110 GMT), the first of eight flights expected over the next two days to test operations at the state-of-the-art facility that was inaugurated on July 3 by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Photographer: A Sarthak

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