Turkish Airlines plane skids off runway following foggy conditions
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Digital Reporter
Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 2:52 PM - A Turkish Airlines airplane carrying 224 passengers had to be evacuated Wednesday after it skidded off the runway at Kathmandu airport and landed on the grass.
No injuries were reported, but injuries described the experience as "terrifying".
"We didn't understand at first that it was an emergency landing," passenger Tal Cohen told Ynet.
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"We didn't see anything when we landed, we heard a boom but thought it was because of the landing, and then suddenly we saw that the plane wasn't stopping. Luggage went flying throughout the plane and there was smoke. At one point, we stopped but no one still really understood what had happened. We saw from the windows parts of the plane scattered in the field."
Airport spokesperson Purna Prasad Chudal Chudal told AFP the plane had permission to land. "Conditions were foggy earlier, visibility was ok. We are not sure how this happened," Chudal added.
An investigation is ongoing.
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