Brace for more flight cancellations and delays as the primary runway of Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSIA) is unlikely to get full operational before Thursday after a SpiceJet aircraft carrying 167 passengers veered off the runway on late Monday night. Incessant rain and obstruction caused due to runway overshooting by SpiceJet flight SG 6237 (Jaipur-Mumbai) have already lead to the diversion of 55 flights, while another 200 were cancelled. "It will take time as the aircraft has to be lifted from the place where it is stuck near one end of the primary runway," informed a senior airport official. The security forces and airport staff said that the delays, cancellations and diversions have led to a chaos at the airport. Another flight had overshot the runway on Sunday at Surat airport, after taking off from Bhopal.

Source: dna July 03, 2019 00:45 UTC