A relief flight carrying passengers of the Swiss International Air Lines aircraft, which exited the runway after landing in Astana, has departed from Astana.
The incident occurred on local time August 17th, when flight LX161 (Boeing 777-300ER, registration: HB-JNI) from Tokyo/Narita to Zurich made an unscheduled landing at Astana Airport due to a passenger’s health issue, and during a turn on the runway, exited onto the grass.
As the aircraft needed to be inspected, Austria Airlines from the group dispatched a relief flight (Boeing 777-200ER, registration: OE-LPC) to Astana. The relief flight, operating as OZ1302, departed Astana at 11:23 AM local time on the following day, August 18th, and is scheduled to arrive in Vienna at 2:23 PM the same day. Subsequently, passengers will transfer to a Swiss International Air Lines relief flight (Boeing 777) bound for Zurich, expected to arrive around 5:00 PM that day. A total of 331 passengers and crew members were on board.
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