Passenger airplane crashed at Mumbai airport; Worry of casualties

New Delhi: A passenger airplane skidded off the runway whereas touchdown at India’s Mumbai airport and suffered an accident.

In response to Indian media, there have been 5 passengers and three crew members within the enterprise class non-public airplane of Canadian Airways, owned by an actual property agency, which arrived in Mumbai from Andhra Pradesh.

The runway of Mumbai airport was slippery on account of rain, on account of which the airplane couldn’t be dealt with after touchdown and circled at an angle of 180 levels and got here off the runway.

After the entrance a part of the airplane hit the bottom, half of it was destroyed. Each the pilots have been critically injured whereas the passengers additionally sustained minor accidents and have been shifted to a close-by hospital.

There was no lack of life within the accident, however the airplane was utterly destroyed. After the runway was closed, all flights have been diverted to Goa and Ahmedabad.

Aviation additional mentioned that the airport has just one runway in use daily so flights needed to be diverted to different cities.