Later in November 1964, the CIA launched a U2 flight out of Aviation Research Centre (ARC)'s Charbatia Air Base in Orissa, but its return turned out to be something of a mishap. The Lockheed U-2 overshot the runway and got stuck in slushy ground caused by heavy rain in the monsoon. Getting it unstuck and out of India without being noticed by the Indian press, then even more subject to leftist influences and hence antagonistic to the US, was another clandestine operation.
In November 1964, the CIA secretly dispatched a U2 flight from ARC's Charbatia Air Base in Orissa, but its return journey ended in disaster when the aircraft veered off course and became mired in the mud due to heavy monsoon rain. The subsequent covert operation aimed at retrieving the plane without alerting the Indian press, which was already predisposed against the US due to leftist sympathies.