Jet skids off runway
ISTANBUL: A passenger plane from Duesseldorf, Germany, skidded off the runway yesterday after landing in Istanbul, officials said. No one was injured.
The Turkish-owned private Inter Airlines flight, carrying 102 passengers and six crew members, landed at Istanbul's Ataturk airport shortly after midnight, an airport official said. But the Fokker-100's left side wheel system broke after touching down, causing the plane to turn to the left and skid off the runway, he said.
"The plane skidded for about 1km on its left side on a field and stopped," passenger Cefair Cakmak told the Anatolia news agency.
"People inside were screaming."
There was slight damage to the plane and passengers were evacuated through emergency exits, the official said.
"There were screams and panic after the incident. People ran into each other," another passenger, Emine Karakaya, told Anatolia.
Authorities were investigating.
Fonte: Gulf Daily News - 26/07/2004