Glasgow flight skids off runway

by Dave Keating | October 31, 2008 at 02:58 am

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A plane coming from the UK has skidded off the runway in the Canary Islands. No injuries have been reported so far.

Passengers on a Thomas Cook chartered flight from Glasgow have escaped injury after their plane skidded off the runway at Lanzarote airport.

The Air Europa Boeing-737 plane had 74 people on board when it left Glasgow Airport at about 0300 GMT on Friday.

Flight AEA-196 came off the runway after touching down in Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands, at about 0710 GMT.

The plane came to a halt close to a beach. Passengers were unhurt but shaken by the incident.

The airport has been closed while the emergency services remove the aircraft.