KOLKATA: An Air India flight carrying 166 passengers, including former finance minister Yashwant Sinha, from Delhi to Ranchi was diverted to Kolkata on Sunday evening following thick fog cover over the Jharkhand capital.
The flight hovered over Ranchi and then travelled to Kolkata when the weather showed no signs of improvement. It landed at the NSCBI Airport at 4.30pm. While 38 passengers chose to return to Delhi in a flight that left Kolkata at 6.30pm, the rest, including Sinha, decided to travel by road. While Air India arranged two Volvo coaches for the journey, state police deputed two armed security guards in each bus on Sinha's request.
The buses had to journey through Jangalmahal area in West Bengal and Jharkhand where Maoist rebels, though depleted, are still active.
Recently, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's flight to Patna had similarly been diverted to Kolkata due to bad weather and he had then taken a train to the Bihar capital.
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