Video; Turkish Airlines: Emergency passenger evacuation

Plane skids off Nepal slippery runway

 

A Turkish Airlines plane carrying 224 passengers had to be evacuated after it skidded off the runway on landing at Kathmandu airport on Wednesday and ended up on grassland.
Photographs on social media showed the jet with its nose to the ground. Local newspaper reports said its landing gear appeared to have collapsed. 

pictures and video after the cut


Passengers slid to safety on emergency slides.

 

 

Nepal aviation officials said no one on board was injured, although one witness described how terrified passengers leapt from their seats as the cabin filled with smoke after the plane skidded to a halt.
Airport spokesman Purna Prasad Chudal said the pilot overshot the runway during an initial attempt to land, before making a second try that sent the plane skidding off the tarmac.