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Kingfisher plane hit by jackal at Bangalore, passengers safe

A small aircraft of Kingfisher Airlines with 24 passengers on board on a flight to Hyderabad got stuck on the runway at the airport.

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BANGALORE: A small aircraft of Kingfisher Airlines with 24 passengers on board on a flight to Hyderabad got stuck on the runway at the airport here on Thursday night while preparing for take-off after its nose wheel hit a jackal which strayed into the area.
     
All the passengers are safe and evacuated but the nose wheel was damaged and the turbo-prop ATR aircraft (flight no IT 2427) slid on its belly, airport sources said.
     
There were no reports of injuries to any passenger in the incident which halted movement of flights in and out of Bangalore as the runway was blocked by the stranded aircraft.
     
The sources said the plane's nose wheel hit the jackal as it rolled into the runway for readying to take off around 10pm.
          
As the jackal got entangled in the nose wheel, the pilot applied the brake, jamming the landing gear of the aircraft, they said.
    
Efforts were on to tow the plane away from the runway to allow resumption movement of flights.
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