Dense fog causes flight delays at Kolkata

Kolkata: Dense fog caused major disruption of flights at the NSC Bose Airport this morning.
The departure of flights from here was delayed between one and a-half to about two and a-half hours. The departure of 18 flights was affected while two incoming flights had to hover over Kolkata. While one of them hovered for about two hours and 15 minutes the other one had to circle for 45 minutes.
The visibility went down because of dense fog from about 4:50 a.m. which went down too only 50 metres at 6:30 a.m. Altogether 18 flights were on the queue. The first flight which left Kolkata was Air India's flight to Port Blair. It left at about 8:13 a.m. instead of its scheduled time of departure at 5:35 a.m.. Passengers were inconvenienced but had to endure. The cargo flight of Etihad had to hover for about two hours and 15 minutes because of the poor visibility.
29/10/08 The Statesman

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Categories: Airports Oct 2008