Mangaluru, Nov 4, 2016 : Poor visibility due to fog has delayed landing of at least three flights at the Mangaluru International Airport on November 3, Thursday morning.
The Air India Express flight from Dubai which arrived at 6 am could not land due to the mist and left for Kozhikode only to return to Mangaluru later and land safely at 8.30 am almost two and a half hours behind the scheduled arrival time.
Similarly, the Jet Airways flight from Abu Dhabi which arrived at 7.30 am could not land and headed towards Bengaluru from where it returned at 9.40 am. Meanwhile, the Bengaluru-Mangaluru Jet Airways flight arrived one hour behind schedule at 9.20 am.