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Passengers escape unharmed as aircraft overshoots runway

Passengers escaped unharmed when an aircraft missed a runway on landing and ended up on a road.

None of the 135 people on board the Caspian Airlines flights was hurt in the incident in the city of Mahshahr in Iran.

Images and footage of passengers exiting the aircraft, which was on a flight from the capital of Tehran, were posted on social media.

State TV quoted provincial aviation officials as saying the pilot “landed the aircraft too late and this caused him to miss the runway”.

The pilot was unable to deploy the landing gear, and the incident was being investigated, Iranian media reported.

A reporter who was on board the aircraft said that the back wheel of the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft had broken off and that it skidded without its wheels, according to the BBC.

The aircraft skidded off the runway at 7.50am local time on Monday.

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