Flight lands at Chennai after thick fog at Coimbatore

Chennai: A Mumbai-Coimbatore Spice Jet flight with 120 passengers on board landed here on Saturday morning after heavy foggy conditions led to poor visibility at Coimbatore airport.
Airport sources said the flight was scheduled to land at Coimbatore airport at 0720 hrs. Since a thick blanket of fog had covered the Coimbatore airport, the flight landed here.
The flight left for Coimbatore at around 0900 hrs after the sky cleared, the sources added.
Several Coimbatore-bound flights were delayed due to the bad weather.
12/01/08 PTI/The Hindu

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