New Delhi:
Dense fog is back in the capital after a brief respite and as always when there's fog, flights are badly affected.
On Thursday morning, as many as 38 flights were hit. That includes 19 international and 19 domestic flights.
All the 19 international flights are delayed. Among them, 12 are departures for destinations including Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Toronto, Bahrain and Dubai.
Six arriving international flights from Bahrain, Dubai, Istanbul and Beijing are delayed.
Among the 19 domestic flights that have been hit, 2 going to Mumbai have been cancelled while the others have been delayed.
The airport had witnessed shallow fog during the day yesterday, but it did not disrupt the flight movements as visibility was manageable and there was no problem in landing and take-off till late evening.
Thick fog started to descend on the airport from around 11 pm last night, reducing the general visibility to zero and runway visibility to less than 100 metres, forcing the airport authorities to implement low visibility procedures and flights operated using CAT-III B Instrument Landing System (ILS).
After the runway visibility dropped to 500 metres last evening, pilots landed the aircraft using CAT-I instrument landing system.
"In the morning, the runway visibility was between 200 to 300 metres on both the runways which are CAT-III B compliant and can help an aircraft to land when the runway visibility is about 50 metres and flights were operating under CAT-III B conditions," an airport official said.
With no dense fog in the last five days, flight operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport had remained uninterrupted.
On Thursday morning, as many as 38 flights were hit. That includes 19 international and 19 domestic flights.
All the 19 international flights are delayed. Among them, 12 are departures for destinations including Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Toronto, Bahrain and Dubai.
Six arriving international flights from Bahrain, Dubai, Istanbul and Beijing are delayed.
Among the 19 domestic flights that have been hit, 2 going to Mumbai have been cancelled while the others have been delayed.
The airport had witnessed shallow fog during the day yesterday, but it did not disrupt the flight movements as visibility was manageable and there was no problem in landing and take-off till late evening.
Thick fog started to descend on the airport from around 11 pm last night, reducing the general visibility to zero and runway visibility to less than 100 metres, forcing the airport authorities to implement low visibility procedures and flights operated using CAT-III B Instrument Landing System (ILS).
After the runway visibility dropped to 500 metres last evening, pilots landed the aircraft using CAT-I instrument landing system.
"In the morning, the runway visibility was between 200 to 300 metres on both the runways which are CAT-III B compliant and can help an aircraft to land when the runway visibility is about 50 metres and flights were operating under CAT-III B conditions," an airport official said.
With no dense fog in the last five days, flight operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport had remained uninterrupted.
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