Colombo-bound flights of Turkish and Sri Lankan airlines were diverted to Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday due to bad weather, according to ANI.
According to a statement from Thiruvananthapuram International Airport Ltd (TIAL), one of the diverted flights was a Turkish Airlines service from Istanbul carrying 258 passengers and 10 crew members, while the other was a Sri Lankan Airlines flight from Dammam in Saudi Arabia with 188 people onboard, comprising 8 crew, 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.
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