A Sri Lankan Airlines flight arrived at Katunayake Bandaranaike International Airport from Kualalampur ,Malaysia with 249 passengers and 18 crew members on board had been diverted to Mattala International Airport at Hambanthota(Southern Province) this evening (20) due to the bad weather prevailed around Katunayake Airport at that time.The flight had been diverted to Mattala Airport especially due to the lack of Fuel stored in the plane to stay in the air space till the bad weather improves according to Sri Lankan Airlines.
Later the plane has safely landed at Mattala Airport and received fuel .Afterwards it returned Katunyake Airport as the weather improves .
