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| January 14, 2010 | Dense fog disrupts flight operations in Delhi | | New Delhi: A dense fog over the IGI airport on Thursday morning disrupted flight operations. Around 35 domestic and international flights had to be rescheduled. Due
to the dense fog, around 10 domestic flights to Agartala, Mumbai, Bhubaneswar,
Pune, Chennai, Leh, Amritsar, Lucknow and Coimbatore were cancelled, said
sources at the IGI. Several flights have been cancelled or delayed in Mumbai as well
on account of the delay and cancellations of flights in New Delhi. "In the morning, the
runway visibility was between 200 to 300 meters 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," said an airport official The flights were operating under CAT-III
B conditions," said an airport official. Earlier on Wednesday, despite a shallow
fog during the daytime, there was no problem in landing and taking off till late
evening. The dense fog began to envelope the airport from around 11 p.m. on
Wednesday,
thereby reducing the visibility to zero and runway visibility to less than 100
meters. As a result, the airport authorities had to execute low visibility procedures
and the flights were operated using CAT-III B Instrument Landing System (ILS).
On Wednesday evening, pilots landed the aircrafts using CAT-I instrument landing
system, after the runway visibility dropped down to 500 meters. | |
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