Colombo Airport attack: Flights get diverted to Chennai after

A Cathay Pacific Airways Boeing 777-300, registration B-HNG performing flight CX-703 (dep Oct 28th) from Bangkok (Thailand) to Colombo (Sri Lanka), as well as a Thai Airways International Airbus A300-600, flight TG-307 (dep Oct 28th) from Bangkok to Colombo, had to divert to Chennai (India) due to the closure of Colombo Airport following an attack by Tamil rebels.
A light aircraft had bombed a power station in the vicinity of the airport causing a one hour's blackout to Colombo and the airport.
After the end of the attack and resumption of normal airport operations the two diverted flights were called into Colombo and reached their destination with a delay of 3.5 hours each.
29/10/08 Simon Hradecky/The Aviation Herald, Austria

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