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Bangalore airport closes operations for four hours

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Chaos and confusion reigned at the city's HAL Airport, as over 30 flights were diverted and take-offs of several other flights rescheduled for about four hours on Tuesday afternoon.

The airport's already overstretched infrastructure had to bear the big crowd of waiting passengers and friends and relatives who had come to see them off. A senior official of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) official told The Hindu that the airport was closed for four hours from 2 p.m. The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), which owns the airport, wanted to check the runway for every flight. It also wanted to carry out emergency repairs on the runway, which had suffered damages after a Kiran trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force made a belly-landing on Monday.

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