Heavy rains in Mumbai and other parts of the country have disrupted the schedule of several flights and trains plying between the connecting cities. On Wednesday flight number 6E 663 from Kolkata to Nagpur landed at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport nearly 2.40 hours late at 12.40 pm. Similarly, flight number 6E5377 from Mumbai to Nagpur and flight number G8-812 from Bengaluru to Nagpur were also delayed.
It is pertinent to note here  that on Monday and Tuesday night, SpiceJet’s plane had slipped while landing on the Mumbai Airport runway. Due to this accident one runway at Mumbai airport was closed for several hours. Apart from this, there was torrential rain. Considering the high tide and more rains warning, changes were also made in the schedule of some flights.
AI629 Mumbai-Nagpur reached here at 10.45 pm with a delay of one-and-a-half hour while flight -G 8 2601 Mumbai-Nagpur, landed 54 minutes late. Flight number 6E-482 Mumbai-Nagpur was 42 minutes late. It reached here at 10.37 am.
Meanwhile several trains also ran late because of rains. Travelers are facing considerable inconvenience. On Wednesday, train number 12106 Gondia-Mumbai Vidarbha Express was terminated and started from Nagpur to Mumbai instead of Gondia. Nagpur-Mumbai Duronto Express was suspended at 8.40 pm while 12101 Lomati-Howrah Dnyaneshwari Express, 12809 Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus-Howrah Mail, 18029 LTT-Shalimar, Shalimar Express and 12262 Howrah-Mumbai Duronto Express were either late or canceled.
In the delayed trains, 12810 Howrah-Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mail (3.30 hours), 16360 Patna-Ernakulam (1.30 hours), 12130 Howrah-Puno Azad Hind Express 2 hours, Vaishno Devi Katra-Yashwantpur Special 6.30 hours, 12906 Kolkata-Porbandar Okha Express 1.15 hours, 12146 Puri-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Superfast Express 1.30 hours, 12843 Puri-Ahmedabad Express at 1.45 hours, 12860 Howrah-Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai Gitanjali Exoress was other by 2 hours, 18030 Shalimar-Lomati 1 hour and 12409 Raigad-Hazrat Nizamuddin Gondwana Express by several hours. A large number of passengers in the Nagpur railway station’s waiting hall got stranded. Many of the passengers who had arrived on time for their trains had to wait on the station due to rains.
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