Indian Jet airways craft skids off runway at ZIA

BSS, Dhaka

An aircraft of India's private Jet Airways Monday met an accident on the runway of Dhaka's Zia International Airport just ahead of its take off with 139 passengers and crew onboard for New Delhi, officials said.
"The aircraft skidded off the runway while it was taking off, but there was no incident casualties and all the passengers and crew were safe," Bangladesh Civil Aviation Authority Chairman Air Commodore Sakeb Iqbal Khan Majlish told BSS.
He said the passengers were immediately evacuated from the Boeing 737 aircraft while an air force contingent joined the salvation campaign along with civil aviation workers and Biman Bangladesh airlines and Jet Airways engineers.
Flight operations at Zia International Airport resumed Monday afternoon after salvation of an India's private Jet Airways aircraft that had skidded off the runway.
"Departure and landing of aircrafts resumed after the flight operations were suspended for nearly three hours following the accident," a Civil Aviation Authority spokesman said.