19 am, Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport suffered a rare attack in the summer fog, resulting in a large area, or half-way return flight delays, and other alternate airport, many passengers forced to remain in the airport. This is the 16th of this month, twice the night of thunderstorm weather hit, the double the airport due to weather again caused extensive flight delays.
It is understood that, in general, winter and spring is the frequency of heavy fog in Chengdu season, and in the summer in July is almost impossible fog.
According to civil aviation meteorological department, 19 of the fog was mainly due to the rain yesterday, led the ground humidity, coupled with the sky clear up the clouds opened, thus forming a radiation fog.
19 日 in this fog 4:30 or so, when the apron and runway shrouded by heavy fog, visibility is only 50 meters, reaching less than normal flights take off or land in the standard release . Airport emergency start of the two types of ILS systems, but visibility was still not reach the requirements of inbound and outbound flights, the airport was forced to close. To 8 am, the fog gradually dispersed, the visibility was restored to the normal landing flight standards, to 8:20, the first outbound flight to Kunming 3U8661 departure to the destination, and then gradually turn the other flights take-off, double the airport to be reopened, which closed during the entire nearly double the airport 4 hours.
the airport is currently in Shuyun double peak passenger flow, combined with closure of the airport flight out of Hong Kong during the flight happens to be the more concentrated period of time, resulting in a large area of flight delays and a lot of traveling passengers.
According to statistics, the direct result of the fog the day of 103 inbound and outbound flights delayed, canceled four flights out of Hong Kong, 2 can not arrive on incoming flights had to alternate, respectively, Kunming, Xi'an Airport, and resulted in 3 flights from Kunming to Chengdu midway return, leading to more than 9,000 passengers can travel destination on the dot, forced to remain in the airport.
view of this situation, double the airport to each resident in a timely manner to release a large area of flight delays warning signal. Affected by the fog was mainly outbound flights to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Lhasa, Kunming,
nike jordans, Wuhan, Urumqi, Lanzhou and other major cities and the province of Panzhihua, Xichang, Jiuzhaigou and other airports; flights into Hong Kong is mainly to from Lhasa, Xi'an, Guiyang, Jiuzhaigou, Urumqi, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities throughout the country and the province branch.
Shuangliu Airport flights arranged by the day of the flight plan, all-day total of 596 inbound and outbound flights taking off and landing. This is in a fog of double tickets to the airport to bring enormous pressure.
It is predicted that the day will result in double the airport fog follow-up extended to all inbound and outbound flights over 4 hours, there are more flights will fly cross-Ling points, but not the flight plan 20 affected. Estimated to 18 hours after the flight will gradually return to normal, and basic evacuation of stranded passengers completed. (Lvjun Ming Yang Jie)