WATCH: A cellphone captures passengers evacuating an AirAsia plane after it overshot the runway at Kalibo International Airport on December 30.
TORONTO – An AirAsia flight overshot a runway while landing in the Philippines forcing passengers to use the emergency slide to disembark the plane Tuesday evening.
According to a local reporter on board Flight Z2272, the plane was scheduled to depart Manila at 3:10 p.m. for Kalibo when it was delayed for two hours due to bad weather.
When the plane finally got in the air, reporter Jet Damazo-Santos wrote on Twitter that the short flight ended with a hard and abrupt landing.
Photos posted on Twitter show the plane’s emergency slides deployed in the rear with the AirAsia jet stopped on a grassy field.
“Engine was shut immediately, we were told to leave bags, deplane asap. Firetruck was waiting,” Damazo-Santos wrote.
No one was injured in the incident.
Flight Z2272 was operated by AirAsia Zest, an affiliate of Philippines AirAsia.
The emergency landing comes just two days after an AirAsia jet went missing en route from Indonesia to Singapore.
Search crews on Tuesday located and recovered six bodies as well as debris from the Java Sea, the site where AirAsia Flight 8501 crashed.
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