<p>Due to heavy fog and restricted visibility Thursday morning, pilots of a Qatar Air flight decided to divert to Shamshabad airport in Hyderabad and an Air India flight returned to Mumbai, said the statement of Commander P. Mathur. <br /><br />“Later, between 9:30 a.m. and and 10:30 a.m., which is the exclusive military flying time, both the flights returned to Dabolim (in Goa) for normal operations,” the statement said. <br /><br />A chartered flight from Amsterdam in Netherlands, scheduled to arrive at 6:00 a.m. Wednesday, decided not to land at the Dabolim airport and chose to divert to Colombo. Similarly, a Jet Airways flight and a Qatar Air flight decided to divert to Mumbai and Bangalore respectively due to bad weather/visibility over the airport.<br /><br />“The Indian Navy, however, again accommodated the landing of these two flights later in the day during the exclusive military flying time zone,” the statement said. <br /><br />The official said that repairs to nearly half the length of the airport's runway, damaged from oil spillage after a tanker carrying 6,000 litres of petroleum products overturned on the airstrip, were being carried out at full-swing and the 11,000-foot-long runway would be operational by weekend.</p>
<p>Due to heavy fog and restricted visibility Thursday morning, pilots of a Qatar Air flight decided to divert to Shamshabad airport in Hyderabad and an Air India flight returned to Mumbai, said the statement of Commander P. Mathur. <br /><br />“Later, between 9:30 a.m. and and 10:30 a.m., which is the exclusive military flying time, both the flights returned to Dabolim (in Goa) for normal operations,” the statement said. <br /><br />A chartered flight from Amsterdam in Netherlands, scheduled to arrive at 6:00 a.m. Wednesday, decided not to land at the Dabolim airport and chose to divert to Colombo. Similarly, a Jet Airways flight and a Qatar Air flight decided to divert to Mumbai and Bangalore respectively due to bad weather/visibility over the airport.<br /><br />“The Indian Navy, however, again accommodated the landing of these two flights later in the day during the exclusive military flying time zone,” the statement said. <br /><br />The official said that repairs to nearly half the length of the airport's runway, damaged from oil spillage after a tanker carrying 6,000 litres of petroleum products overturned on the airstrip, were being carried out at full-swing and the 11,000-foot-long runway would be operational by weekend.</p>
