10 30, the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport suffered the most severe since the autumn of this year in a fog attack,
nike air 90, double the airport was forced to shut down more than 3 hours, a direct result of 63 out of Hong Kong flight delays and led to seven incoming flights to alternate around the airport with 4 flights were canceled, two half-way return flights into Hong Kong, while resulting in more than 5,000 departing passengers stranded in the airport, flying to destinations not on time.
do this, double timely release of a large area of the airport flight delays warning signal.
It is understood that the day of heavy fog around 5:40 in the morning, apron and runway shrouded by heavy fog, visibility is only about 200 meters, the airport was closed until 9 am the morning fog began to disperse. Blind Landing System at the opening of the second category, the first flights to Shenzhen CA4337 to take off the port, the Chengdu airport resumed normal operations.
closure of the airport over three hours, causing many flight delays and a lot of passengers stranded, forced stranded at the airport. Affected mainly outbound flights to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Lhasa, Kunming, Wuhan and other parts of the country, has little effect on international flights; incoming flights, mainly from Lhasa, Xi'an, Guiyang, Jiuzhaigou, Urumqi city; alternate flights, mainly from Shenzhen, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Kunming and other places, including international flights from Singapore CA404 alternate Kunming Airport; halfway 2 return flights from Yinchuan, and Xi'an.
Previously, Chengdu airport, although several have suffered heavy fog intrusion since the autumn, but the book is mist or fog, visibility flights taking off and landing have reached the standard, so no flight impact, and today's fog is the most severe since the autumn of this year.
to actively respond to heavy fog, Chengdu airport emergency start of the The prompt start of second-class blind landing system, so that all inbound and outbound flights taking off and landing at least 1 hour or more earlier, won for the passenger travel time.
According to civil aviation meteorological department, the main reason for this occurrence is due to foggy weather, ground humidity, coupled with sunny skies yesterday, today the formation of radiation fog. At present, Chengdu has been made into the period of the frequency of heavy fog, the airport took the opportunity to remind the visitors, please pay attention to weather changes. (End)