Mumbai, November 10: A Kingfisher Airlines ATR aircraft with 42 passengers and four crew onboard overshot the runway after it landed at Mumbai Airport today.
All the passengers are safe and have been evacuated from the aircraft, a Kingfisher Airlines spokesperson told PTI here.
“Kingfisher Airlines flight 4142 from Bhavnagar (Gujarat) left (overshot) the runway after landing,” a Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) spokesperson said.
Both the pilots of the aircraft have been taken off duty pending an internal inquiry, the airline spokesperson said.
Mumbai Airport remains completely shut for operations between 12 noon and 1 pm every Tuesday, and thereafter a shortened stretch of 1,700-metre on the western end of main Runway 27 is used for take-off and touch-down by smaller planes, such as ATRs, A319s and A320s till 6 pm.
–Agencies