The Alliance Air's Mumbai-Shirdi ATR flight overshot the runway by 50 meters during landing at Shirdi airport in Maharashtra today at 5:29 pm. All 70 passengers on the plane are reported to be safe.

In what could have been an aviation scare, the flight overshot the runway at the time of landing at the relatively new Shirdi airport. But no casualties have been reported and all 70 passengers are reported to be safe.

The Shirdi Airport is located at Kakadi village, about 14 km South-west of the town of Shirdi in Maharashtra, India. The airport, spread over 400 hectares, is owned by the Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC) and was inaugurated by President Ram Nath Kovind on 1 October 2017.

Communication Navigation Surveillance (CNS) and Air Traffic Control (ATC) at the airport will be managed by the Airports Authority of India (AAI).

The Rs. 340 crore airport project is part of the State Government's effort to promote religious tourism at Shirdi, known for the temple of Sai Baba, among the most revered spiritual gurus in India.

Around 80,000 devotees visit the temple town daily and the numbers go up to 5 lakh per day during weekends, vacations and festivals.

Recently, in order to facilitate night landing facility at Shirdi airport, a team of Airport Authority of India (AAI) had made a decision to conduct a survey of the Shirdi runway which is 2.5-km-long to ascertain the infrastructure required for enabling night landing.

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on May 21, 2018 07:17 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).