Spice Jet Aircraft Overshoots Wet Runway in Mumbai- M’luru to Dubai Flight Cancelled

Spice Jet Aircraft Overshoots Wet Runway in Mumbai- M’luru to Dubai Flight Cancelled

Spice Jet Aircraft Overshot Runway in Mumbai on Tuesday which affected flight operations there- Due to this Mangaluru to Dubai Flight, which was scheduled to take off at 11.20 pm on Tuesday September 20 was cancelled.

Mangaluru: A Spice Jet aircraft with 183 passengers on board overshot the wet runway at Mumbai Airport while landing here and got stuck in the soft mud on Tuesday evening, according to officials. Luckily there were no casualties and all passengers were de-boarded by deploying chutes. There was no smoke or fire emanating from the Boeing aircraft, said the officials. The incident involved Spice Jet’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 those were deplaned safely, 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 suspended temporarily all incoming and outgoing flights. Among which was the Jet Airways flight from Mangaluru to Dubai with nearly 150 passengers, which was scheduled to take off at 11.20 pm on Tuesday, September 20 was also cancelled. The flight had to be called off as the aircraft which was to arrive in Mangaluru from Mumbai and then fly to Dubai could not arrive due to unavoidable circumstances.

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-around for seven others.