Delhi-bound Jet flight skids at Dhaka runway

A Delhi-bound Jet Airways flight skidded on the runway while taking off from Dhaka's Zia International Airport at about 11 a.m. Monday, a senior airport official here said.

All 131 passengers, including the crew, were evacuated safely and no one was injured.

"The airlines is making arrangements to bring back the passengers to Delhi," an official deputed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here said.

The Bangladesh government has constituted a committee to probe into the incident, he disclosed. Flight operations remained suspended for at least half-an-hour and a few international and domestic flights were diverted.

Flight operations become riskier during the monsoons and there have been many similar incidents in India and elsewhere. This, according to pilots, is largely due to poor maintenance of runways.