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Air India aircraft veers off taxiway, rolled into drain at Kochi airport, passengers safe

| @indiablooms | Sep 05, 2017, at 06:14 pm
Kochi/Mumbai, Sep 5 (IBNS) : An Air India Express aircraft veered off the taxiway and rolled partly into a drain after it landed at the Kochi airport in Kerala early on Tuesday morning., media reports said.

All 102 passengers were evacuated safely from the Abu Dhabi-Kochi flight.

NDTV quoted airport sources as saying that the plane took a turn too soon - about 90 metres before it was supposed to - while approaching the parking bay and went off track. Images showed a wheel of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft stuck in what appeared to be a drain.

"All passengers were evacuated through ladder. All are safe. No casualties," a Cochin International Airport spokesperson has been quoted as saying.

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