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Patna,(BiharTimes): Air and rail traffic were disrupted on Wednesday because of foggy weather in Patna and several other parts of the state.
It was as late as 5 PM that the first flight could land at Patna’s Jaya Prakash Narayan International airport.
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Several flights had to wait at different airports for hours before finally taking off for Patna.
The Delhi-Patna-Delhi flight (AI-409/410) of Air India landed here at 5.40 PM. It was scheduled to arrive at 11.45 AM.
Air India afternoon Delhi-Patna-Delhi flight (AI-407/08) was also over four hours behind schedule. It arrived at around 6.15 PM. Its evening flight on the same sector (AI-415/16) was also affected.
Reports said that the Bangalore-Kolkata-Patna flight of IndiGo had to return after poor visibility did not allow it to land at Patna airport.
It arrived here at around 6:30 PM, more than six hours behind schedule. In the morning, the flight had to once return from Patna as poor visibility did not allow it to land. It finally took off at 5.30 PM from Kolkata after visibility improved in Patna.
Similarly IndiGo’s Mumbai-Delhi-Patna flight (6E-178/09), scheduled to arrive at 1.55 PM, was more than five hours late.
Simiarly, train service was badly paralysed by the foggy weather. Several trains to and fro Patna are running late by several hours. The delay in arrival and departure of trains will have a cumulative impact and may aggravate the problems of the passengers in the days to come.
Met department official said visibility was as low as 300 metres in the morning. It improved to 800 metres around 1 PM. At 4 PM the visibility was only 1200 metres.
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