SilkAir flight drifts on landing

SilkAir flight drifts on landing

SINGAPORE (AP): A SilkAir flight from Phuket, Thailand, drifted toward the edge of the runway when it landed at Singapore's Changi Airport yesterday, television reported.

No injuries were reported. The plane was towed to the terminal building and those on board disembarked through a jetbridge, the TV report quoted SilkAir as saying.

There were 88 passengers and seven crew members on board Flight MI 751.

A duty officer at Changi Airport confirmed the incident to the Associated Press, but could provide no details.

A Boeing 737 of SilkAir, a tourist operation of the flag carrier Singapore Airlines, mysteriously plunged into an Indonesian jungle river last December, killing all 104 people aboard.