Jet Airways flight skids upon landing at Delhi airport, passengers safe


New Delhi, Apr 20 (PTI): A Jet Airways ATR aircraft, carrying 65 people, from Dehradun on Wednesday skidded upon landing at the airport in New Delhi.

The airline said all passengers have been safely deplaned.

Following the incident in the evening, the operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport were impacted for nearly two hours as one of the runways was temporarily shut, sources said.

The plane skidded upon landing on runway 29 and "lost control", they added.

"Our flight 9W 2882, an ATR 72-500, from Dehradun to Delhi... experienced a nose wheel malfunction after landing, resulting in a steering problem," Jet Airways said in a statement.

All "60 guests and 5 crew members have been safely deplaned" and that the aircraft is being towed away for maintenance, the airline said.

A Delhi airport official said the runway was shut for nearly two hours and after the aircraft was towed away, the operations resumed at around 1840 hours.

According to Jet Airways, alternative arrangements were made for the affected passengers.

An ATR aircraft has a seating capacity for 72 people. Besides Jet Airways, two other full service carriers -- Air India and Vistara -- operate from runway 29 at the international airport here.

  

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  • Venzil Fenandes, Mangalore

    Thu, Apr 20 2017

    This is just insane..!!!😡😡😡😡

    Since 1 year most of the flight issues r with Jet Airways..its high time that the Jet Airways mangement inspect all their flights and thn take approval from NTSB to go on the runway...

    How many times cn u ignore such errors.. its too much nw.. whn vl management learn after a crash..??

    Hope atleast now work on these bcz evn a minute will lead to disaster which we do not want anymore..😓

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