According to Thiruvananthapuram International Airport Ltd (TIAL), one of the diverted flights was a Turkish Airlines service from Istanbul, carrying 258 passengers and 10 crew members. The other flight was a Sri Lankan Airlines flight from Dammam in Saudi Arabia with 188 people onboard, comprising 8 crew members, PTI reported.
TIAL said both aircraft landed safely at Thiruvananthapuram around 7 AM, and once conditions improved in Colombo, they departed at 8:38 AM and 8:48 AM, respectively.
In related news, an aircraft carrying 44 passengers and headed for Jaffna on Saturday was rerouted to Tiruchirappalli due to poor weather in the northern Sri Lankan city, according to PTI. Since the weather failed to improve and the delay stretched to more than three hours, the airline eventually cancelled the service, according to the sources quoted by PTI
