Aircraft skids off runway in heavy Mumbai rains
There is ongoing disruption at Mumbai airport
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Your support makes all the difference.An aircraft skidded off the runway at Mumbai airport when it landed in heavy rains.
SpiceJet flight SG6237, which was flying from Jaipur in Rajasthan, overran the runway upon landing at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj airport.
From images shared on social media, it appears the Boeing 737-800 jet slid through mud before coming to a stop off the side of the main runway at India’s second-largest airport.
Images show the aircraft nose resting on the ground.
It's thought that the airport is still working on extricating the aircraft.
No passengers or crew were injured and everyone was evacuated safely, local media reported.
As a result of the runway overshoot, the main runway was closed off, according to the India Times, and flights were diverted to nearby Bengalaru and Ahmedabad airports.
There is ongoing disruption at Mumbai airport.
The incident comes just a day after an Air India plane overshot the main runway and veered into a patch of muddy grass when landing in the city of Mangalore.
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