Fog disrupts traffic

vIndianz.com (20 Jan, 2010) — New Delhi: Dense fog disrupted at least 60 on Wednesday including international flights operation at IGI airport in New Delhi.

According to airport spokesman, three flights were diverted, five domestic flights cancelled and eight domestic and international flights were rescheduled. Around 40 domestic and international flights were delayed by several hours, causing inconvenience to passengers.

Fog started to descend on the airport Tuesday night and it become very dense at around 10.30 pm when the general visibility dropped to zero and the runway visibility to less than 100 metres.

The condition worsened in the morning when the runway visibility dropped to 75 metres for both, main and new, runways.

According to the MET department, the condition would continue to remain the same till afternoon.

The airport has been witnessing dense fog since last Wednesday, affecting the schedule of over 350 flights.

Heavy fog in most parts of north India disrupted rail and road transport services as well.

Four trains were cancelled while over 50 were running behind schedule.

Delhi Traffic police too echoed the sentiments of Railway officials saying fog affected the school children in a big way.

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