AirAsia plane with 159 on board overshoots Kalibo runway

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">MANILA, Philippines - Another Air Asia plane was in trouble as the budget carrier AirAsia Zest with 159 people on board overshot the runway and got stuck in a muddy field at 5:43pm on Tuesday, December 30 at an international airport in Kalibo after landing from Manila in a bad weather.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggpGW_WyPXQJfevPwS2casrAZURH07SFaBK2E9EEune23sW1GYSXuLL3qwjkcjpGtRdNvD5d2JGLS0rw-jBV_85OWDemi_fYF2BFNZexshJXmfZgz-5C-9mieDT1-2D7n7GlODQstef1r2/s1600/Airasia+plane+overshot+runway+at+kalibo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="AirAsia Zest plane overshoots Kalibo International Airport runway" border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggpGW_WyPXQJfevPwS2casrAZURH07SFaBK2E9EEune23sW1GYSXuLL3qwjkcjpGtRdNvD5d2JGLS0rw-jBV_85OWDemi_fYF2BFNZexshJXmfZgz-5C-9mieDT1-2D7n7GlODQstef1r2/s1600/Airasia+plane+overshot+runway+at+kalibo.jpg" title="AirAsia Zest plane overshoots Kalibo International Airport runway" width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">AirAsia Zest plane overshoots Kalibo International Airport runway | Credit: Jet Damazo-Santos (Rappler)</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Officials said that there's no report of injuries after the accident on domestic Flight Z2 272 as crew members launched emergency slides to help passengers disembark from the Airbus A320-200.<br /><br />Rappler’s Jet Damazo-Santos has witnessed how the plane came down with “a hard, abrupt landing” followed by “a very abrupt stop.”<br /><br /><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">Airasia plane overshot runway at kalibo <a href="http://t.co/6E4hWUJbS0">pic.twitter.com/6E4hWUJbS0</a><br />— Jet Damazo-Santos (@jetdsantos) <a href="https://twitter.com/jetdsantos/status/549865901596475392">December 30, 2014</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></center><br /><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">Had to deplane using emergency slide <a href="http://t.co/tNg3rzEbPT">pic.twitter.com/tNg3rzEbPT</a><br />— Jet Damazo-Santos (@jetdsantos) <a href="https://twitter.com/jetdsantos/status/549865286598287362">December 30, 2014</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></center><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><br /></blockquote></center>Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines spokesman Eric Apolonio said that three of the plane's tires got stuck in the mud.<br /><br />Reports said that the flight to Kalibo was, like QZ8501, already delayed by two hours due to stormy weather.<br />Kalibo town, 350 kilometers (217 miles) south of Manila, is a busy gateway to the Boracay Island, a worldwide popular tourist destination.<br /><br />The accident came after an AirAsia plane crashed into the Java Sea on Sunday during a flight from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on board. Search teams on Tuesday recovered at least 40 bodies from the sea near where the plane was lost.</div>

AirAsia plane with 159 on board overshoots Kalibo runway

MANILA, Philippines - Another Air Asia plane was in trouble as the budget carrier AirAsia Zest with 159 people on board overshot the runway ...

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