Jetstar plane slides in the wet

Slashed tyre ... Jetstar Asia is investigating why a flight from Singapore to Siem Reap-Angkor international airport slide off the runway and how one of tyres came to have cuts in it

News.com.au
By Mark Schliebs
August 22, 2008

A JETSTAR Asia plane partially slid off a runway in Cambodia as it came in to land in wet weather, damaging two tyres.

The Jetstar Asia flight from Singapore to Siem Reap-Angkor international airport, carrying 144 passengers, landed in the rain yesterday morning, with reports the plane’s fuselage also scraped along the ground during landing.

Jetstar Asia is the sister company to Melbourne-based airline Jetstar Airways.A Jetstar Asia spokesman said an investigation was being carried out.

"The plane landed in heavy weather," the spokesman said.

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"The aircraft drifted to the edge of the runway."

He said there was no permanent damage to the aircraft and no passengers were injured.

During an inspection of the plane, two tires were found damaged and mud was discovered on the aircraft's fuselage.

All passengers disembarked as normal, the airline said.

The A320 would fly back to Singapore later today.

A NEWS.com.au reader said the plane “left the runway and blew a tyre and scraped the ground”.

Another reader, who was booked on the plane’s flight back to Singapore yesterday, said the airline put him up at a motel while another flight was organised. “We’ve been told that technical difficulties in Siem Reap have caused the cancellation for a full 24 hours,” he said last night.

The airline spokesman said all passengers were later put on another flight.