Haze cuts visibility, fog alarm at IGI Airport

New Delhi: A thick cover of haze brought down runway visibility at the IGI Airport down to 600m on Tuesday morning. While no flights were affected, airport officials are a worried lot since only one runway at present can cater to aircraft in CAT-III condition dense fog. The Met department has predicted a colder and foggier winter as compared to 2010.

"Visibility has steadily been dropping since the past two days and was fluctuating between 600m and 800m on Tuesday morning. Fog is yet to set in, but in the absence of windy conditions, dust and pollution have settled down into a haze. This is quite worrying since the airport has not managed to sort out the problem with the main runway's instrument landing system and only the new runway is capable of handling aircraft if visibility falls below 350m," said an airport official.
02/11/11 Neha Lalchandani/Times of India

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