Bengaluru: Movement of flights to and from Bengaluru airport was affected after an Indigo aircraft suffered a tyre-burst while landing at Hyderabad airport on Wednesday night.
Operations at Hyderabad Airport were affected between 10:28pm on Wednesday and 2:22am on Thursday. With this, ten flights were diverted from Hyderabad to Bengaluru, four other Hyderabad-bound flights returned to Bengaluru. However, this led to delay in several flights. BIAL officials said four flights from Bengaluru were diverted to Chennai and one each to Mumbai and Coimbatore and it is said that operations at Bengaluru airport were affected due to additional traffic.
The Indigo 7117 carrying 77 passengers took off from Tirupati Airport around 8.55 pm and landed at Hyderabad airport at around 10:25 pm on Wednesday.
