Four Flights were landed at Nagpur airport instead of Hyderabad airport due to fog. This is the first time that four flights at a time have been landed at Nagpur instead of Hyderabad due to bad weather. All these four planes belong to Indigo Airlines and two foreign flights are also included.
On Monday morning, IndiGo flight 6-E 5012 took off from Mumbai to Hyderabad. However, due to dense fog in Hyderabad, the pilot diverted the plane and landed at Nagpur. A few minutes later another flight 6E495 Chennai Hyderabad also landed at Nagpur. after that Flight 6E86 from Dammam, Saudi Arabia to Hyderabad and Flight 6E1318 from Doha, Qatar to Hyderabad were also landed at Nagpur.
On Monday morning, there was so much fog in Hyderabad that nothing could be seen at the airport. Due to low visibility, permission to take off and landing at Hyderabad airport was denied. As a result, 45 airlines were affected.