Spicejet plane stuck in mud at Mumbai airport, no casualties

Mumbai Sep 19 (IANS) A SpiceJet aircraft with 183 passengers on board overshot the the runway while landing here and got stuck in the soft mud on Tuesday evening officials said.

There were no casualties and all passengers were deboarded by deploying chutes.

There was no smoke or fire emanating from the Boeing aircraft said the officials.

The incident involved SpiceJet s Varanasi-Mumbai flight no SG-703 which skidded and overshot the runway 9/27 after landing and got stuck in the mud due to wet runway conditions.

All passengers deplaned safely and were guided to the arrival hall.

As work was on to extricate the stuck aircraft regular flight operations were affected.

Meanwhile late on Tuesday night as torrential downpour continued over Mumbai Jet Airways announced it had suspented temporarily all incoming and outgoing flights.

Earlier evening operations at Mumbai Airport were affected for nearly 30 minutes owing to poor visibility leading to diversion of four incoming flights and go-arounds for seven others.

--IANS
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