14 January,2009 01:42 PM IST | | PTI
A Pakistan International Airways (PIA) flight made an unscheduled landing at the international airport due to dense fog in Dhaka on Wednesday.
The Karachi-Dhaka flight, which was flying over Kolkata airspace with 200 passengers and crew, was informed by Dhaka ATC about the dense fog conditions there following which it made a landing here at 3.50 am, airport sources said.
Fire tenders were pressed into service to deal with any emergency, the sources said.
The passengers have been accommodated at a guest house in the capital, the sources said.
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Dense fog conditions also prevailed with visibility dropping to 50 metres leading to disruption of flight schedules.
While 10 flights could not take off till 7 am, several others could not land.
A Hyderabad-Kolkata flight, which was scheduled to touch down at 8 am, has returned to Hyderabad after it was unable to land till 9 am due to fog, the sources said.
