Singapore plane skids off runaway

Singapore plane skids off runaway

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Singapore Airlines Ltd. has launched an investigation after an Airbus A310 skidded on landing in bad weather and overshot the runway at Kuching in Malaysia's eastern state of Sarawak.

None of the 142 passengers and 12 crew were hurt in the incident Saturday evening, the official Bernama news agency reported.

It quoted Kamaluddin Othman, regional head of the Department of Civil Aviation, as saying the aircraft skidded and overshot the runway by about 20 metres but the cause had yet to be established.

The incident involving Flight SQ186 disrupted 36 international and domestic flights in and out of the airport.