Fog badly disrupts air traffic, 150 flights affected

January 06, 2014 10:15

A heavy blanket of fog forced authorities to suspend flight movement at the Indira Gandhi Airport for around three hours, leading to delay and diversion of around 150 domestic and international flights on Monday.

Between 8pm on Sunday and 8 am on Monday, around 150 flights, either arriving in Delhi or departing from there have been cancelled or diverted due to extremely poor visibility at the airport due to dense fog, airport officials said.

Around 51 domestic and international flights departing from here and 39 scheduled to arrive in Delhi, between 8 pm-8 am, have been cancelled.

Also 52 incoming flights have been diverted to Amritsar, Lucknow and other destinations, they said.

A SpiceJet flight from Goa to Delhi, with 132 passengers and four crew onboard, had to make an emergency landing at around 9.50 pm as it ran short on fuel.

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