New Delhi, August 21: The Civil Aviation Ministry today took a serious note of the flooding of runway and arrival terminal as also blowing off of a roof of the new domestic departure terminal at Indira Gandhi Airport here due to heavy rains and high-velocity wind, leading to disruption of flights.
Ministry sources said a report has been sought from Delhi International Airport Limited, which has modernized the airport and maintains it, on the flooding and collapse of the terminal roof.
Rains and winds blew off a part of the roof of the new domestic departure terminal at the Delhi airport and disrupted flight operations for almost two hours as the runway and the arrival terminal got flooded.
Over 20 flights were delayed and ten diverted to Lucknow and Jaipur as the airport area here witnessed 31.8 mm of rains in a span of just 30 minutes and a wind speed of about 100 kms per hour.
—Agencies