The mass cancellations of commercial flight operations across the world may have impacted travellers, but with most of the country’s aircraft grounded on account of the lockdown, there’s an unexpected casualty.
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has been left deprived of crucial weather data that it used to receive from flying airplanes. India’s largest airline IndiGo said Tuesday that it had been collaborating with IMD to provide aircraft data on wind, humidity and temperature relayed by various aircraft sensors and this relay of data has been impacted due to the grounding of the fleet.
