An Air India flight veered off the runway as it landed during heavy rain at the Mumbai Airport on Monday, briefly shutting the runway and damaging the underside of one of the plane's engines.
All passengers and crew members have since disembarked, the airline said, without saying whether anyone was injured.
Flight AI2744 had flown from Cochin International Airport in southern Kerala state to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai.
In a statement, Mumbai airport said there were “minor damages reported to the airport's primary runway” due to what it described as a “runway excursion”.
A secondary runway had been activated to ensure operational continuity, officials added.
Air India flight AI2744, an Airbus A320-251N, temporarily veers off the runway during landing at Mumbai International Airport damaging its engine cowling and several tyres.
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There was heavy rainfall at the time of the incident.
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The Airbus A320 has been grounded for checks, Air India confirmed.
A Times of India report said three of the aircraft’s tyres had burst after the landing.
Footage from television stations NDTV and India Today showed the outer casing of the engine damaged, with some apparent cracks.
Air India has come under intense scrutiny after a Boeing 787 Dreamliner headed for London Gatwick Airport crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad last month, killing 260 people including 52 UK citizens.
British-Indian man Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, was the only person to walk away alive from the plane after it slammed into a residential building, killing 241 people on board and 19 on the ground — including his own brother.
Preliminary findings of the probe into the crash on June 12 indicate that both switches controlling fuel flow to the jet’s two engines were switched off almost simultaneously, moments after taking off, starving the engines of fuel.
Now, investigators are focusing on what they believe may have been a chilling act in the cockpit. According to flight data reviewed by US authorities, captain Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, may have manually flipped the aircraft’s fuel cut-off switches — an action aviation experts say would have to be intentional.
A black box summary reportedly captures co-pilot Clive Kunder, 34, asking: “Why did you cut off?” Sabharwal responds: “I didn’t.” However, data shows the switches were turned off one second apart, then flipped back on ten seconds later — too late to restart the engines.
The pair had nearly 14,000 hours of flying experience between them and were hailed in the aftermath of the crash for taking evasive action thought to have spared the lives of hundreds on the ground.
