Mumbai: A Kingfisher Airlines ATR-72 aircraft skidded off the runway on Tuesday at around 1630 hrs IST while landing at the Mumbai airport, officials said.
The airlines has ordered a probe into the incident.
The aircraft carried 42 passengers and four crew members, and there are no casualties, a spokesman for the airlines said on Tuesday evening.
The pilots of the aircrafts have been derostered, the spokesman added.
The Bhavnagar-Mumbai flight IT-4124, landed at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport where visibility was low due to rains and cloudy skies since early Tuesday morning.
On Tuesdays, only half the main runway is used and only smaller aircraft are allowed to operate between 1200 hrs IST to 1800 hrs IST to facilitate maintenance and repair of the runway, as announced in October by the airport authorities.
A spokesman for Kingfisher Airlines said the cause of the incident is not yet known. He denied that a fire broke out in the aircraft due to the skidding.
On account of the incident, a few flights scheduled for departure on Tuesday evening were delayed.
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