News

China: Plane skids off runway, 5 injured

by IBNS 10 May 2015, 05:43 pm

Beijing, May 10 (IBNS) At least five people were injured as a plane, in which they were traveling, skidded off a runway while taxiing in a southeast China airport on Sunday, media reports said.

"Joyair flight JR1529 careered off the runway when landing at Fuzhou Changle International Airport (FCIA) in Fuzhou City, capital of Fujian Province," Xinhua reported.

According to reports, 45 passengers and seven cabin crew were present in the plane when the mishap occurred.

FCIA was temporarily closed after the accident.

"The aircraft, a China-built Modern Ark 60 (MA60), was flying on a connecting route between Fuzhou, the eastern city of Yiwu in Zhejiang Province, and Hefei in east China's Anhui Province. It departed from Yiwu at 10: 42 a.m. and was scheduled to land in Fuzhou at 12:10 p.m," the news agency reported.