Zero visibility hits air traffic in Kolkata

Kolkata: Zero visibility due to dense fog has affected air traffic at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport here, airport sources said.
Visibility which was around 0.55 metres at 11 pm on Wednesday night dropped to zero around midnight and hovered around zero metres till 8 am on Thursday, the sources said.
Altogether 47 domestic flights could not take off while 13 flights could not land, the sources said.
Eleven international flights were also delayed. Of them, six could not take off.
Of the five arrivals, three were diverted, the sources added.
Three international flights which arrived after midnight were re-routed, airport sources said.
Lufthansa's Frankfurt-Kolkata flight could not land here and was diverted to Hyderabad. Similarly, Air India Express' Singapore-Kolkata flight was diverted to Hyderabad while Air India's Jeddah-Kolkata flight was re-routed to Nagpur.
However, two other international flights which arrived before 11.30 pm could land taking advantage of the CAT II Instrumental Landing System at the airport, sources said.
Three domestic flights, too, were diverted on Wednesday night.
15/01/09 PTI/Daily News & Analysis

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