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GUWAHATI: Imphal’s Bir Tikendrajit International Airport was shut down for about four hours Sunday afternoon following a high alert on sighting or a high-altitude unidentified object over the airport. Operations were resumed at around 5.30 pm.
The object was sighted by CISF personnel and at around 2.30 pm the operations were halted and about 500 passengers of three outbound flights were stranded, a source said.
As many three flights scheduled to departure from Imphal to Agaratala, Guwahati and Kolkata around 3 pm were suspended till 6 pm. Another flight from Delhi to Imphal was diverted to Kolkata while a flight from Guwahati to Imphal at 3.50 pm, which was also suspended later departed at 6.50 pm.
There is no immediate clarification on the identity of the object, but sources said DGCA and IAF are jointly looking into it.
The object was sighted by CISF personnel and at around 2.30 pm the operations were halted and about 500 passengers of three outbound flights were stranded, a source said.
As many three flights scheduled to departure from Imphal to Agaratala, Guwahati and Kolkata around 3 pm were suspended till 6 pm. Another flight from Delhi to Imphal was diverted to Kolkata while a flight from Guwahati to Imphal at 3.50 pm, which was also suspended later departed at 6.50 pm.
There is no immediate clarification on the identity of the object, but sources said DGCA and IAF are jointly looking into it.
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