Male, September 7: The Air India flight AI263 landed at the under-construction runway at Male Velana International Airport in the Maldives. The Air India flight AI263 was flying from Trivandrum to Male, when it landed on a non-operation runaway. All the 136 passengers and crew members on board are safe. Two main wheels of the plane were deflated. The aircraft was towed to the parking bay.

On September 4 in Chennai, The pilot of Indigo airlines aborted landing after he spotted a vehicle crossing the runway. According to a report published in The Times of India, Airports Authority of India (AAI) has kept the main runway closed for taxiway work daily, between 12.30pm and 6.30pm, and flights are diverted to the second runway.

In a similar incident, a charter jet missed four taxiing airplanes as 200 feet after it mistakenly lined up with a taxiway instead of the nearby runway on August 10. In another incident, on July 7, 2017, an Air Canada plane missed landing on a taxiway at San Francisco airport.

 

 

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