A Kolkata bound Air India flight from Delhi skidded just before take-off at the Kanpur airport, about 83 km from Lucknow on Wednesday afternoon.
All 59 passengers aboard and the crew were unhurt and safe, civil aviation officials said.
Celebrated author Chetan Bhagat who was among the passengers put out a message on Twitter, following which the news about the mishap spread across everywhere.
"The flight (IC 9801) had arrived about 45 minutes earlier from New Delhi and was getting ready to take-off for Kolkata, around 12.55 pm, when some trouble with one of the tyres sent the aircraft skidding off the runaway into mud. Thankfully, the pilot managed to bring it to a halt," a civil aviation official told this scribe over telephone.
Kanpur Inspector General Chandra Prakash confirmed," All passengers as well as crew were safe and evacuated to the airport lobby."
20/07/11 Rediff.com
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