Plane overshoots runway due to heavy rains

The operations at Mumbai airport run by GVK-MIAL was shut between 2:30pm and 7pm after a Fedex cargo aircraft overshot the runway following heavy rains and winds amid landfall of Cyclone Nisarga.

"Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport witnessed a runway excursion with FedEx flight 5033 arriving from Bengaluru. The incident occurred when the MD11 aircraft landed on runway 14/32. The aircraft was towed away from the runway and there has been no disruption in flight operations.

Over 40,000 people living near the sea coast in Mumbai were shifted to safer places in view of the cyclone 'Nisarga' which made a landfall at Alibaug in neighbouring Raigad district of Maharashtra on Wednesday, officials said.

When the cyclone passes off, these people will be sent home after their health tests, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

"The BMC shifted 10,840 people from areas near the sea coast and landslide-prone locations to 35 municipal schools where temporary accommodation facilities have been set up. They were provided food and water," the civic body said in a release. Besides, following an appeal by the BMC, nearly 30,000 people on their own moved to these temporary accommodations, it said.

The civic body also received 37 complaints of tree fall in the city, but there was no report of any injury. Mumbai Police also said that hundreds of people living in areas near sea shores like Colaba in South Mumbai, Worli and Dadar in Central Mumbai, and Juhu and Versova in Western Mumbai were shifted to safer places.