This time - and what's new? - A philippine Air Lines A320 made a RWY excursion in Mindanao after LDG.
What's happening to their A320 crews?
PAL plane partly skids off Shariff Kabunsuan runway - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
Seems to be the airport of Cotabato City.
PAL plane partly skids off Shariff Kabunsuan runway
By Edwin Fernandez
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 18:19:00 08/20/2008
COTABATO CITY—A Philippine Airlines Airbus A320 from Manila partly skidded off the runway after landing at the Awang airport in Shariff Kabunsuan province early afternoon Wednesday.
None of the plane's 80 passengers were injured although many of them were thrown into panic.
Major General Raymundo Ferrer, commander of the Army's 6th Infantry Division, said the plane which arrived at 2 p.m. was trying to turn around towards the tarmac area but its front tires slipped outside of the concrete runway and hit the soil.
This he said caused the plane to halt abruptly.
“The soil was quite soft so the tires got stuck," he said.
“We were surprised the plane suddenly stopped at the other end of the runway, then we were told to disembark,” a passenger said.
Ferrer said the incident could be due to pilot error.
"The way I look here, the pilot miscalculated the space as he was turning back the aircraft,” he said.
The airport's runway is shorter compared to other airports in Mindanao.