Muscat: Flights in and out of Salalah International Airport were disrupted for several hours yesterday after an Air India Express aircraft suffered a punctured tyre as it was landing, effectively blocking the runway, authorities said.
None of the roughly 80-odd passengers on board the aircraft suffered any injuries in the incident, which occurred at the end of a scheduled flight from the south Indian city of Kochi yesterday afternoon. The passengers and crew disembarked safely, they added.
With the aircraft stranded on the runway, a number of flights into and out of Salalah were either delayed or cancelled as a result. It was only at around 6pm yesterday that the aircraft was successfully towed to a parking bay, it is learnt.
04/11/11 Oman Observer
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