Snag in Sukhoi-30 affects flight operations at Pune airport

PUNE: A four-hour blocade of the runway due to a snag in a Sukhoi-30 aircraft of Indian Air Force (IAF) at the city airport led to suspension of commercial flight operations, causing inconvenience to hundreds of passengers today.

"Due to a problem in the nose undercarriage of a SU 30 aircraft, there was a runway blockade at 0915 hrs at Pune airbase. The runway was cleared for all operations at 1300 hrs," the IAF said in a statement here

The closure of runway for repairs of the aircraft resulted in disruption of commercial flights and about ten flights had to be rescheduled, airport sources said.

Pune has no separate civil airport and the IAF airbase is shared for commercial passenger flights.