Spice jet flight skids in Mumbai ; 183 passengers escape

Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) runway operations were suspended between 6.49 p.m. and 7.16 p.m after visibility dropped to less than 400m and went down to 250m. Mumbai-bound flights were diverted to Hyderabad (one), Vadodara (one) and Ahmedabad (five) during this period. Later, both runways were closed, and the main runway was unavailable till 10 a.m. on Wednesday, a Note To Airmen (NOTAM) said.



But at 10:05Pm when Varanasi-Mumbai Spicejet flight landed it overshot the runway and got stuck in the loose soil at the end of the main runway.All 183 passengers on a Varanasi-Mumbai Spicejet flight had a miraculous escape.

Due to which emergency was declared and all flight operations of to-and-from Mumbai came to a halt. Passengers were evacuted and suffered minor injuries.