Flight services in Chennai severely affected - 12 flights diverted
Posted on: 13/Jan/2018 11:43:48 AM
Today, the festival occasion of Bhogi - the last day of the sacred Tamil calendar month Margazhi - is celebrated by the public throughout Tamil Nadu.
As per the tradition, the public resorted to gathering the old unwanted material and started burning them. This has resulted in huge smokes which pollute the air.
The amount of burning and the smoke generated this year seems to be unprecedented and has affected the environment in Tamil Nadu - the sky appears to be a huge smoke zone. Further, as this is the last day of the winter month Margazhi, there has been a heavy fog as well.
In short, the Chennai Metro City is surrounded by fog and smoke. Even the streets/roads have been rendered invisible. This has very severely affected the traffic. The fog.smoke has also affected the flight severely.
Landing the flight was not possible due the fog/smoke. Runways were also rendered invisible. Because of this, no flights were allowed to land in the Chennai Metro City Airport. Again, the flights which were scheduled to take off could not do so.
A flight from London which was to land in Chennai Airport this morning (Saturday, 13th January) was diverted to Hyderabad airport as the landing was not possible. Similarly, 12 more flights have been diverted.
It has been announced that the 30 flights, scheduled today to take off from Chennai, will all be delayed.
