Turkish Airlines plane skids off runway at Mumbai

A Turkish Airlines plane skidded off the runway after landing in the Indian city of Mumbai early on Friday but no one was injured, officials said.

The Airbus A340 plane carrying 97 passengers and crew from Istanbul "veered off a rapid exit taxiway N8" after landing at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport shortly before 4:15 am (2245 GMT Thursday), a spokeswoman said.

"All emergency procedures are being activated... Passengers are disembarked safely and taken in the terminal. No casualties reported. Flight operations have not been affected," Anindita Sinha added in a text message statement.

The airport said the runway had been inspected about 15 minutes before the incident and no problems were reported. One landing and take-off took place immediately after the inspection and before the arrival of the Turkish jet.

On Wednesday, an Air India Airbus A330 plane from the Saudi city of Jeddah with 286 passengers and crew was forced to land under emergency conditions in Mumbai after problems were detected with its hydraulics, the airline said.

On Tuesday, another Air India jet with 123 passengers and crew landed under emergency conditions in Thiruvananthapuram in the southern state of Kerala because of a hydraulic problem.

On Monday, seven passengers were injured when they jumped out of a Gulf Air Airbus 320 from Bahrain before the emergency shoots deployed after the jet skidded to a halt on landing in Kochi, also in Kerala state.

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