Severe weather disrupts operations at Mumbai airport, several flights diverted – Times of India

MUMBAI: Heavy rain and wind shear on Wednesday evening affected flight operations at the Mumbai airport as two flights were diverted while seven flights aborted landing and climbed for a second attempt at touch down.
Air India flight AI-656 departed Rajkot at 6.15 pm and was scheduled to land in Mumbai and hour later, but heavy rains forced the aircraft to divert to Ahmedabad.IndiGo flight from Bangkok to Mumbai 6E1052 diverted to Ahmedabad at 8.04 pm due to wind shear- sudden change in speed and direction of the wind. By 8.15 pm, seven flights that had come in to land has carried out a go-around because of weather conditions, said an airport official.
Flight operations were delayed by an average of 30 minutes.