Thursday, September 08, 2011

Tires of Air India plane burst while landing in Goa, passengers safe

Panaji: Around 105 passengers on board an Air India flight from Kuwait had a miraculous escape when the tires of the aircraft burst while landing at Goa airport this morning.

"The tires of the AI flight from Kuwait burst while landing at the Goa airport at around 8am today. All the 105 passengers are safe. We are making arrangements to take the passengers to their destination (Chennai)," an AI spokesperson said from Mumbai.

Airport officials said flight AI 976, flying from Kuwait to Chennai via Goa, met with the accident around 8.30 a.m.

They, however, claimed that the tires burst as the plane was heading towards the taxiway.

Last week, a Turkish Airlines plane with 104 people on board had skidded off the Mumbai airport taxiway with its landing gear getting stuck in the mud near the main runway leading to flight disruptions for four days.

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