{"id":618348,"date":"2023-11-20T11:36:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T06:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=618348"},"modified":"2023-11-20T12:55:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:25:40","slug":"flights-stopped-at-imphal-airport-for-3-hours-after-unidentified-object-spotted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flights-stopped-at-imphal-airport-for-3-hours-after-unidentified-object-spotted\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights stopped at Imphal airport for 3 hours after unidentified object spotted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The operations of the normal flights to and from the Bir Tikendrajit International Airport in Manipur\u2019s capital Imphal were affected for several hours on Sunday after an unidentified object was seen hovering in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>The object was sighted around 2.30pm by security personnel stationed in the airport. An alert was sounded and operations stopped for nearly three hours which affected three outbound flights and two flights bound for Imphal got diverted, officials said, requesting anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to sighting of the unidentified object above the airport, flight operations remained suspended from 2.30pm to 5.50pm. In that duration, three flights leaving from Imphal were delayed and two in-bound flights were diverted,\u201d said an airport official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The operations of the normal flights to and from the Bir Tikendrajit International Airport in Manipur\u2019s capital Imphal were affected for several hours on Sunday after an unidentified object was seen hovering in the sky. The object was sighted around 2.30pm by security personnel stationed in the airport. An alert was sounded and operations stopped for nearly three hours which affected three outbound flights and two flights bound for Imphal got diverted, officials said, requesting anonymity. \u201cDue to sighting of the unidentified object above the airport, flight operations remained suspended from 2.30pm to 5.50pm. In that duration, three flights leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}