An aircraft carrying eight passengers skidded off Mumbai airport runway due to rain at 5:02 pm on Thursday. Few passengers have been injured and are being taken to the hospital.
“VSR Ventures Learjet 45 aircraft VT-DBL operating flight from Vizag to Mumbai was involved in runway excursion (veer off) while landing on runway 27 at Mumbai airport. There were 06 passengers and 02 crew member on board.Visibility was 700 metres with heavy rain”, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said in a statement.
The aircraft was owned by an infrastructure company called Dilip Buildcon. The Mumbai airport is currently shut for operations and is under inspection.