New Delhi: Air passengers had to face a harrowing time at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Wednesday evening after a sudden change of weather led to six flights getting diverted, apart from scores of both arrival and departure flights getting delayed.
While the capital witnessed rainfall on Wednesday morning, IGI airport saw rains accompanied with thunderstorms. The weather turned adverse in the evening, between 6.45pm and 7.15pm, which resulted in six arrival flights getting diverted to other nearby airports.
The flights that were diverted included Air India’s flights from Guwahati (AI 890), Varanasi (AI 405), and Patna (AI 408), Jet Airways flights from Jorhat (9W 957) and Patna (9W 731) and IndiGo’s flight from Kolkata (6E 206).
R K Jenamani, head of MeT unit at the IGI Airport, said that while the airport saw thunderstorms since the morning, the weather turned adverse in the evening due to the presence of cumulonimbus clouds, which are dangerous for aircrafts. The change in the wind pattern also resulted in crosswinds, which made it difficult for aircrafts to land at the airport.
28/06/18 Times of India
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While the capital witnessed rainfall on Wednesday morning, IGI airport saw rains accompanied with thunderstorms. The weather turned adverse in the evening, between 6.45pm and 7.15pm, which resulted in six arrival flights getting diverted to other nearby airports.
The flights that were diverted included Air India’s flights from Guwahati (AI 890), Varanasi (AI 405), and Patna (AI 408), Jet Airways flights from Jorhat (9W 957) and Patna (9W 731) and IndiGo’s flight from Kolkata (6E 206).
R K Jenamani, head of MeT unit at the IGI Airport, said that while the airport saw thunderstorms since the morning, the weather turned adverse in the evening due to the presence of cumulonimbus clouds, which are dangerous for aircrafts. The change in the wind pattern also resulted in crosswinds, which made it difficult for aircrafts to land at the airport.
28/06/18 Times of India
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