An airplane takes off at the international airport in Kathmandu
Nobody was hurt in the incident, but hundreds of passengers had flights cancelled and all incoming flights were diverted after the Malindo Airlines Boeing 737 went off the runway.
The plane came to a halt in the mud - about 100 feet from the runway.
All 139 people on board a Malaysian passenger plane had a miraculous escape when the Kuala Lumpur-bound flight skidded off the runway and got stuck in mud while attempting to take off from Nepals only global airport here, officials said.
Tribhuvan International Airport, the sole airport handling international flights from and to Nepal, says it will resume flight operations from 11:30 am today, nearly 12 hours after it closed the functioning.
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Global air traffic to Kathmandu has been halted after a plane skidded off the runway.
People watch a Malindo Air passenger plane after it skidded to the grassy area at the end of runway in Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. Officials were trying to tow the aircraft. However, the runway has been closed down for all global aircraft.
The incident came a month after the crash of a US-Bangla Airways plane at Kathmandu airport, which killed 51 people. In March 2015, a Turkish Airlines aircraft also suffered a runway excursion during landing at TIA that had closed the country's sole worldwide airport for four days creating chaos among travellers.
The Himalayan country also has a poor air safety record.
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