Extreme Heat Delays Flights at Patna Airport
Patna: June 2, 2007
Officials at Patna's Jai Prakash Narayan International Airport blamed the extreme weather conditions for the delay in the departure of all flights causing a melee at the airport where irate passengers scuffled with airline staff and demanded to be transported to their respective destinations without further delay.
With temperature soaring into the mid-40s, Sahara's S2-227 Mumbai-Lucknow-Patna-Kolkata could not take off until 2:40 pm, three hours past its regular schedule, and that too without all passengers.
"There is just too much heat and the planes are carrying baggage load of more than normal forcing us to not fill the plane," Sahara officials said.
Those left behind were later flown by Sahara's S2-115 to Delhi and Mumbai.
Sahara S2-115 also took off four hours behind its schedule while S2-228 was delayed by over three hours because of its late arrival.
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