A Turkish Airways plane from Istanbul to Mumbai carrying 97 passengers on board veered off the runway while landing at the Mumbai airport early Friday morning.The Airbus-340-300 (TK-720) skidded off the rapid exit taxiway at 4.13 AM. All passengers including crew are safe and deplaned after the incident. The incident took place very close to the main runway, leading to 15-20 minutes delay in flight operations. Two flights were diverted. A Gulf-Air flight from Sharjah was diverted to Ahmedabad at 4.40 AM and another Singapore Airways cargo plane from Chicago to Mumbai was diverted to Chennai following the incident.
News On AIR | September 2, 2011 11:01 AM
Turkish plane skids off Mumbai airport runway