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AirAsia Passenger Jet Overshoots Runway in Philippine City of Kalibo

A second AirAsia passenger jet ran into trouble Tuesday after it overshot a runway while landing in strong winds in the Philippines.
Image: An AirAsia Philippines flight from Manila overshot the runway at the Kalibo airport
An AirAsia Philippines flight from Manila overshot the runway at the Kalibo International Airport in Aklan on Tuesday night, Dec. 30.Jet Damazo-Santos / Rappler.com

LONDON — A second AirAsia jet ran into trouble after it overshot a runway while landing in the Philippines on Tuesday, forcing those aboard to disembark by emergency slides, a passenger on the plane told NBC News. There were not believed to be any injuries from the hard landing of the AirAsia plane in Kalibo, on the Philippine island of Panay.

"There was some turbulence but we didn't expect that landing," Jakata-based journalist Jet Damazo Santos, who was on board the flight, told NBC News. "I didn't even realize we overshot the runway until we saw grass outside the window."

There were 159 passengers and crew aboard flight Z2272, Philippine officials told The Associated Press. The incident came hours after debris and bodies found in the Java Sea were confirmed to have come from AirAsia Flight QZ8501, which disappeared from radar on Sunday while flying from Indonesia to Singapore.

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