Mumbai: A chartered aircraft carrying 5 individuals, together with a affected person and a physician, landed on its belly at Mumbai airport late Thursday (May 6) night after declaring a full emergency, with the airport authorities foaming the runway to keep away from the aircraft catching hearth. All passengers have been evacuated safely after belly-landing of the aircraft, which was flying from Nagpur to Hyderabad, based on the Mumbai airport. The non-scheduled Beechcraft was diverted to Mumbai after declaring full emergency as a result of a technical snag.
While it couldn’t be independently confirmed, reviews mentioned {that a} wheel of the plane got here off quickly after taking off from Nagpur. Pictures of the aircraft landing on the foamed runway have been additionally doing the rounds on social media.
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In an in depth assertion, the Mumbai airport mentioned the aircraft — carrying two crew members, one affected person, one relative and a physician — did a belly-landing on the airport at 2109 hours on Thursday. “As a precautionary method, CSMIA also foamed RWY 27 in order to avoid the aircraft catching fire. All passengers were evacuated safely and flights operating in and out of CSMIA remain on schedule,” the airport mentioned in an announcement.
According to an official, the plane belonged to Gurugram-based Jet Serve Aviation Pvt Ltd. (*5*) the assertion mentioned.
Full emergency is said when an plane approaches an aerodrome in a fashion that there’s a hazard of an accident occurring. The Mumbai airport is named Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSIMA) and is the nation’s second busiest aerodrome.Â
