Close shave for Srinagar bound passengers

Jammu: The passengers of the Delhi-Jammu-Srinagar flight (554) of IndiGo Airlines had a miraculous escape on Saturday when the pilot aborted the take-off at the last moment to avoid collision with a vehicle on the runway at Jammu Airport.
The flight was scheduled to take-off from Jammu Airport to Srinagar at around 9.45am, when an SRTC bus carrying stranded passengers to technical airport strayed on the runway. The airplane was carrying 160 passengers, while the SRTC bus was ferrying around 35 passengers.
Sources informed Greater Kashmir that the authorities were shifting the stranded passengers from Jammu Bus Stand to technical airport in SRTC buses through the Jammu airport route. “Two SRTC buses full of passengers had already crossed the runway of the Airport”, an eye-witness said.
He added that unaware about the IndiGo flight getting ready for the take-off, the third passenger bus strayed on the runway leading to a near collision.
21/01/12 Akshay Azad/Greater Kashmir

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