Mumbai: Air India plane with 128 passengers suffers tyre burst; all safe

The airline already pressed into service another aircraft to fly the passengers to their destination.

Update: 2016-10-18 05:01 GMT
Air India, which has been in the red for the past many years, has posted an operating profit of Rs 105 crore in the last fiscal first time in a decade.

Mumbai: An Air India plane carrying 128 passengers and crew members from Ahmedabad suffered a tyre burst while landing at the city airport Tuesday morning.

All passengers are safe and another aircraft has been arranged to ferry passengers to their onward journey, an Air India spokesperson in New Delhi said.

"Air India flight AI 614 from Ahmedabad for Mumbai with 128 passengers and crew members suffered a tyre bust at 0904 hours during landing at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport today," the spokesperson said.

The Airbus A320 aircraft was to fly to Raipur as AI 651, the spokesperson said, adding the airline has already pressed into service another aircraft to fly the passengers to their destination.

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