Bhojpur Airport: Poor visibility halted airport operation since last Sunday.
Bhojpur airport with ICAO sing VNBJ, located at elevation of 4,000 feet ( 1,219 meter) with solo runway has been suffering an extreme climate changes. As per Narayan Puri, Station chief (Bhojpur station) of Nepal airlines, its making adverse effect on flights operation from BHP-KTM and BHP-BRT since last 6 days.
Photo: Low visibility at Bhojpur Airport.
Bhojpur District, one of the developing districts still lacks good road transportation and airway has always been the major transport medium to local people. Due to the heavy rain, low visibility and thick fogs form last Sunday till date imposed flight cancellation made sever affect to needy local people like pregnant women, sick people and old aged.
As Nepal being geographical challenged country, the most airports around have been suffering from bad weather nowadays.
An unpredictable weather has been one of the major factors in halting airports operations efficiency, and has been causing minor incident and sometime even irrevocable crashes.
