Indigo's Guwahati-bound flight lands in Dhaka due to dense fog
IndiGo flight from Mumbai to Guwahati made an emergency landing in Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka due to dense fog. As severe cold wave grips north, central and East India, flight operations have been hampered ion several places. The diverted flight landed in Dhaka at 4 am after it was unable to land at the Guwahati airport due to low visibility.
Congress leader and former State Working President Youth Congress Mumbai Suraj Singh Thakur informed that he and several other passengers in the Guwahati bound IndiGo flight had landed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, without their passport as the airline had to reroute owing to dense fog. “I took @IndiGo6E flight 6E 5319 from Mumbai to Guwahati. But due to dense fog, the flight couldn't land in Guwahati.
Instead, it landed in Dhaka. Now all the passengers are in Bangladesh without their passports, we are inside the plane" the Congress leader tweeted. The passengers are still inside the plane, Thakur said, adding that they have been inside the aircraft for nine hours.
"I am stuck inside aircraft for 9 hours now. I left for Manipur (Imphal) for the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. Let's see when I reach Guwahati and then will fly to Imphal," he wrote.
Another flier, in a post on X, said the 178 passengers had been waiting for over four hours for another crew to fly back to their destination. "IndiGo6E stuck inside aircraft with 178 passengers for 9 hours now, flying 6E 5319 from Mumbai to Guwahati. We made a landing in Dhaka around 4am because of lower visibility in the North East.
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