Port Blair airport submerged by rain water, services hit

Port Blair: Torrential rains through the night cut off air services from the airport here today stranding passengers and virtually snapping travel links between Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the mainland.
As the airport and the terminal building submerged under over 1.5 feet of water, no flights could land or take off from the airport here.
Almost 207 mm of rainfall was recorded after very heavy heavy rains last night, the weather office here said.
The ground floor of the terminal building was submerged in 1.5 feet of water, leading passengers and others to rush to the upper floors, airport sources and passengers said.
Three flights in the morning from Kolkata of Air India, Air Deccan and Jet Airways could not land and returned to eastern metropolis.
An Air Deccan and Air India flight from here to Chennai also could not take off, the sources added.
10/05/08 PTI

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Categories: Airports May 2008