Part of the ceiling outdoors the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Worldwide Airport in Assam’s Guwahati collapsed on Sunday following a sudden storm accompanied by heavy rainfall.
Whereas no accidents have been reported within the incident, the collapse of a portion of ceiling prompted authorities of the Adani Group-controlled airport to briefly halt operations and divert six flights to different locations.
A video of the incident, which has gone viral on social media, confirmed a portion of the ceiling all of the sudden collapsing, with passengers and airport employees operating to take cowl. Different movies confirmed airport employees attempting to take away the surplus water from the premises.
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The Chief Airport Officer (CAO) Utpal Baruah advised information company PTI that the storm uprooted a giant tree on the Oil India complicated outdoors the airport and blocked a highway.
“It was very previous and couldn’t stand up to the influence. Resulting from this, the ceiling broke open and water began flowing inside. Nevertheless, there was no damage and the whole lot is underneath management,” he mentioned.
Baruah additionally mentioned that water entered the terminal from the ceiling.
“I’m personally monitoring the state of affairs in order that passengers don’t face any inconvenience. Because of the storm and heavy rain, the visibility dropped drastically and we needed to divert six flights,” he added.
In the meantime, the flights operated by IndiGo, Air India and Air India Categorical have been diverted to Agartala and Kolkata.
Nevertheless, because the visibility improved later, operations have been resumed and flights began touchdown on the Guwahati airport.
