Chennai: As almost-torrential rainfall pounded the city airport through Sunday night, four flights had to be diverted to Bangalore. Though the flights made it back to Chennai within the next two hours, the cascading effect caused delays to almost all departures on a wet Monday morning.
The Meenambakkam and Nungambakkam observatories together recorded 89.3 mm of rainfall, which is substantial given that the window of the downpour was less than four hours (10 pm - 1.30 am). “It was almost like horizontal rainfall with strong winds were hitting the aerodrome. Take-offs were stalled and four planes that were scheduled to land were not even asked to circle but diverted to Bangalore instead,” said an airport source. The four planes diverted were a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt, an Air India flight from Delhi, a Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur and a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok.
26/08/14 New Indian Express
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The Meenambakkam and Nungambakkam observatories together recorded 89.3 mm of rainfall, which is substantial given that the window of the downpour was less than four hours (10 pm - 1.30 am). “It was almost like horizontal rainfall with strong winds were hitting the aerodrome. Take-offs were stalled and four planes that were scheduled to land were not even asked to circle but diverted to Bangalore instead,” said an airport source. The four planes diverted were a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt, an Air India flight from Delhi, a Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur and a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok.
26/08/14 New Indian Express
