IndiGo Flight To Guwahati Lands In Dhaka, Passengers Stuck For Hours. Here's Why

An IndiGo flight from Mumbai to Guwahati was diverted to Dhaka, Bangladesh, where it made an emergency landing. The passengers remained stuck on the flight for hours.

An IndiGo flight from Mumbai to Guwahati had to be diverted to Dhaka, Bangladesh, because of bad weather on Saturday. The flight that was earlier scheduled to land in Assam's Guwahati, had to take a detour.

"Due to operational reasons, an alternate set of crew is being arranged to operate the flight from Dhaka to Guwahati. The passengers were kept informed of updates and were served with refreshments on board", IndiGo said in a statement.

The IndiGo flight 6E 5319 passengers were frustrated over the abrupt diversion, as they were stuck on the flight for hours. The airline responded as the passengers took to social media to share their ordeal. "We sincerely regret the inconvenience caused," news agency ANI quoted an IndiGo statement.

Taking to social media account, former Mumbai Youth Congress chief Suraj Singh Thakur, on his way to join Congress's 'Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra' in Imphal, said the passengers were stuck on the flight for hours.

"I took @IndiGo6E flight 6E 5319 from Mumbai to Guwahati. But due to dense fog, the flight couldn't land in Guwahati. Instead, it landed in Dhaka. Now all the passengers are in Bangladesh without their passports, we are inside the plane," Thakur wrote in a post on X.

"The passengers have been still inside the plane for nine hours," Thakur added. The flight later departed from Dhaka around 11.20 PM after a delay of three hours, reported PTI.

"Due to operational reasons, an alternate set of crew is being arranged to operate the flight from Dhaka to Guwahati. The passengers were kept informed of updates and were served refreshments on board. We sincerely regret the inconvenience caused," ANI quoted the IndiGo statement.

Earlier, several flights from Delhi airport were also diverted, hit by Severe weather conditions.

As per NDTV, operations at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI Airport) on Saturday were halted, forcing the diversion of 20 flights and causing delays in several others. A total of 13 flights were diverted to Jaipur, four to Amritsar and one each to Lucknow, Ahmedabad, and Chandigarh.

Delhi's air quality remained in the 'very poor' category in several areas on Saturday, leading to poor visibility due to heavy smog. This, in turn, forced many flights to take a detour.

India is currently under the grip of a severe cold wave. Severe to extremely dense fog conditions are expected to prevail in portions of northwest India throughout the early hours over the next three to four days, according to the IMD.