The Head of the Babullah Airport, Rasburhany said on Thursday that the haze blanketing the airport had reduced visibility to 800 meters, due to which no flights were allowed to take off or land.
He added that based on the rules, the safe visibility for flights would be about 5,000 meters.
As a result of the airports closure, no flights from Jakarta, Makassar and Surabaya could land at the airports. As a result, they had to be diverted to the Sam Ratulangi airport of Manado, North Sulawesi, he added.(*)
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