Flights cancelled, delayed after Singapore plane veers off runway in Sibu

[alberttky 0]

SIBU: A Singapore training aircraft skidded and veered off the airport runway during landing on Monday.

The King Air C90B with three people on board, had earlier took off from Seletar, Singapore.

"The pilot and two trainees were foreigners. They escaped without injuries," Sibu airport manager Zainuddin Abu Nasir told reporters.

"We have brought them for observation before they will fly off again tomorrow (Tuesday)," he said.

Asked on what caused the incident, Zainuddin said the Air Accident and Air Airworthiness Unit of the Transport Ministry was investigating the mishap.

He said seven flights were affected after the airport was closed for three hours from noon.

The cancelled flights were Flight AK5872 from Kuala Lumpur to Sibu, and Kuala Lumpur-bound AK5873.

The outgoing flights that were delayed included AK5013 Sibu-Johor Baru; AK5883 Sibu-Kuala Lumpur; AK6469 Sibu-Kuching; MH3703 Sibu-Kuching; MH3154 Sibu-Kota Kinabalu and MH3806 Sibu-Bintulu/Miri.

Zainuddin said that Flight AK5882, which was on its way from Kuching, had to make a turn back.

A passenger of an Air Asia Johor-bound Flight AK5013, who only wished to be identified as Tou, said the plane was about to depart when the pilot decided to turn back.

"It was about noon when the plane was slowly moving out from the runway and was about to depart. About three minutes later, the pilot decided to turn back.

"We were not told of the reason but from the window, we knew why as we could see a small plane that was a little bit out of the runway," he said.

Tou, who is from Kapit, was using the flight as a transit to Singapore.

The flight was delayed to 4pm resulting in passengers being stranded at the airport.

Teacher David Teo was sending his mother off at the airport when her 1.10pm Air Asia flight to Kuching had to be delayed due to the incident.

"My brother called up at about 2.30pm, asking why the plane had not landed. We have to tell him the reason for the delay," he said.

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[Ja Singh 2]

The rego of the plane is VH-PFJ and that's Australian registered aircraft probably based in Singapore.Not a singapore Plane.