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Mumbai airport back to normal

    Mumbai: The Mumbai airport on Thursday resumed working to its full strength following the removal from soft ground of Air Sahara's Boeing 737 early this morning. The Air Sahara aircraft, the wheels of which were stuck on the soft ground, was taken to a parking area in the airport. The main runway has now been made serviceable and available for flight operations. All outbound and inbound flights of most of the airlines providing their services here had to be delayed since Sunday evening when Air Sahara's Kolkata-Mumbai Boeing 737 missed touchdown by several metres while landing, overshot the main runway and bogged down in the soft ground ahead. The mains runway has been unserviceable since then. Almost all flights were delayed for considerable periods during the last four days. The Director General of Civil Aviation is probing the incident that caused serious inconvenience to thousands of passengers in the last four days. Mumbai, the economic capital of India, is one of the busiest airports in the region and the disruption of air traffic, is feared to have caused considerable damage to the trading community.
-Oct 13,  2005

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