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Fog forces flight operations for five hrs

| Updated: December 28, 2017 20:10:07


Fog forces flight operations for five hrs

Flight operations remained halted for more than five hours at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Thursday.

The air service disruption continued from 5:00am to 10:15am in the morning.

"We were forced to suspend flight operation again this morning due to the dense fog starting from 5:00am," said CAAB spokesperson AKM Rezaul Karim.

He said the flight operation was resumed at 10:15am.

Besides, one US-Bangla airlines and one Regent Airway’s flights from Kuala Lumpur were diverted to Chittagong.

An Air Arabiya flight, scheduled to land at 9:00am, could not land until 10:15am at HSIA.

Departing international flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Regent Airways to Kolkata departed delayed after 10:15 am this morning, said Karim.  

Apart from international flights, numbers of early morning domestic flights of Biman Bangladesh airlines, Novo Air, US-Bangla Airlines and Regent airways were delayed due to dense fog, reports BSS.

The flight operations are being disrupted at HSIA in last couple of weeks due to heavy fog.

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