Mumbai: A Kingfisher Airlines ATR-72 aircraft skidded off the runway Tuesday evening while landing at the Mumbai airport, officials said. The airlines has ordered a probe into the incident.
The aircraft carried 42 passengers and four crew members, and there are no casualties, a spokesman for the airlines said Tuesday evening.
Pending the inquiry into the incident which happened around 4.30 p.m., the airlines has de-rostered the pilots of the aircraft, the spokesman added.
The Bhavnagar-Mumbai flight IT-4124, landed at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport where visibility was low due to rains and cloudy skies since early Tuesday morning.
On Tuesdays, only half the main runway is used and only smaller aircraft are allowed to operate between 12 noon and 6 p.m. to facilitate maintenance and repair of the runway, as announced last month by the airport authorities.
A spokesman for Kingfisher Airlines said the cause of the incident is not yet known. But he denied that a fire broke out in the aircraft due to the skidding.
On account of the incident, a few flights scheduled for departure Tuesday evening were delayed.
Source: Indo-Asian News Service