Flights delayed by fog

Dense fog disrupted flight operations for nearly four hours at Calcutta airport on Sunday morning.
The departure of 27 flights was delayed. Three flights bound for Calcutta were diverted, while three others had to circle overhead before landing.
The recently installed Category II Instrumental Landing System could not help, as visibility dropped to 50 metres.
Domestic flight operations at the airport start around 5am, but on Sunday, the first plane — Deccan’s flight to Raipur —took off at 8.40am. It was followed by Air India’s Port Blair flight, whose scheduled departure was 5.35am.
Visibility started dropping from 5am, said an airport Met department official. Around 5.30am, the visibility dipped below 350 metres, making it impossible for flights to operate even by using the CAT-II landing system. For two hours from 5.55am, the visibility was about 50 metres.
25/02/08 The Telegraph

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Categories: airports Feb 2008