Jetstar plane slides in the wet

August 22, 2008, 5:55 pm

Jetstar passengers due to fly out of Cambodia were forced to spend another night in the south-east Asian country after the plane slid to the edge of a runway in wet weather as it arrived from Singapore.

The incident occurred on Thursday morning.

Tyres on the left-hand side of the plane were damaged and had to be replaced but none of the 144 passengers flying from Singapore on the A320 were injured, a Jetstar Asia spokesman said.

"The aircraft drifted to the edge of the runway but it was only for a short time and it quickly corrected as normal," he said.

Jetstar put passengers due to fly back to Singapore from Siem Reap-Angkor up in hotels for 24 hours while another flight was organised, the spokesman said.