Mumbai: Torrential rain leading to poor visibility forced cancellation of all flight operations at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport here on Tuesday night until 5am on Wednesday, sources said.
SpiceJet flight overshot runway on landing at Mumbai airport & got stuck in mud. Chutes deployed for passengers. No fire or smoke reported pic.twitter.com/h33SmEDtra
— ANI (@ANI) September 19, 2017
The situation was further compounded by a SpiceJet flight from Varanasi to Mumbai which skidded and got stuck in the mud after landing, blocking the main runway.
#MumbaiRains | #first pics of #SpiceJet aircraft thay got stuck in mud at #Mumbai #airport.
— Mumbai Mirror (@MumbaiMirror) September 19, 2017
Source: Yogesh Naik pic.twitter.com/7OyQ4G4d8k
We request passengers to keep a check on their flight status via https://t.co/PykmFjYcix. 2/2
— SpiceJet (@flyspicejet) September 19, 2017
Consequently, flight operations have been temporarily suspended till early Wednesday morning.
#Update: As of now, Mumbai (BOM) runway will not be operational until 1030 hours dated 20th Sep’2017. 1/2
— SpiceJet (@flyspicejet) September 19, 2017
Though details of the number of flights which would be affected are not immediately available, a majority could be on international sectors.
Jet Airways has already announced temporary suspension of all its flight operations.
#TravelAlert Due to heavy rainfall at Agartala (IXA), all Departures/Arrivals and their consequential flights might get affected. <1/2>
— SpiceJet (@flyspicejet) September 19, 2017
