Etihad Airways Tyre Burst - MUMBAI
 

Mumbai: A disaster was averted as the tyre of an Etihad Airways aircraft burst upon landing at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai late on Monday, officials said. All passengers were safe.

The flight, EY-204, which arrived in Mumbai from Abu Dhabi landed safely around 7pm, with some 196 passengers and 13 crew members with no reports of any casualties, according to officials.

However, due to the incident, the airport's main runway was shut down for some time to facilitate the towing away of the aircraft.
After the passengers and crew disembarked, the engineers and maintenance crew got down to replace the deflated tyres, said an airline spokesperson.

Incident: Etihad A346 at Mumbai on Jul 31st 2017, burst tyre on landing

An Etihad Airbus A340-600, registration A6-EHI performing flight EY-204 from Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) to Mumbai (India) with 196 passengers and 13 crew,landed on Mumbai's runway 27 but burst a number of tyres during roll out. The aircraft came to a stop on the runway and was disabled.

The airport reported they needed to move operations to the secondary runway while the A340 being stuck at about the mid point of the runway was being prepared for tow until it could be towed off the runway.

The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for about 5 hours, then departed for the return flight EY-203 with a delay of about 2 hours.