Tags: Poor visibility , Mumbai airport

Mumbai: The main runway at the Mumbai airport reopened for operations after being shut down for nearly one-hour because of poor visibility and a suspected tyre-burst of a foreign airline.

"The main runway 09/27 is now open for operations after it was closed due to poor visibility (500-metres) at 6.26 pm," a Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) spokesperson said.

Due to this, some flights had to be diverted to other airports, the spokesperson said, without giving any details.

A few flights have, therefore, been delayed, he said.

The runway was first closed for operations after a suspected tyre-burst of a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight from Jeddah.

Consequently, two flights--Cathay Pacific from Hong Kong and Kingfisher Airlines from Thiruvananthapuram--had to make a go-around for several minutes before landing.

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