Mumbai rain: 14 incoming flights diverted as heavy rain lashes financial capital; Details inside
As many as 14 incoming flights at the Mumbai Airport were diverted to different airports on Wednesday due to heavy rains.
Mumbai: As many as 14 incoming flights on the Mumbai Airport were diverted to different airports on Wednesday attributable to heavy rains, an airport official said here. Of these, nine flights were of IndiGo alone which were no longer given clearance to land within the city attributable to the inclement weather, the official said.
Of the remainder flights which were instructed by the ATC to divert to other airports, two were of Vistara and one every became of Air India, Akasa and Gulf Air.
Seven of the diverted flights were instructed to land in Hyderabad, four at Ahmedabad, two at Mopa Airport in Goa and one at Udaipur, the official added. The town is witnessing heavy showers since afternoon, leading to waterlogging and disruption of traffic.
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